Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ramona. Lo, the poor half-Indian, pity her. Her loving husband, a full Indian, is maltreated by the whites in California in the days of '49. Her baby dies because the white physicians will have nothing to do with her. White bandits shoot up her village, kill her Indian friends and her husband. She wanders in the wild woods, brokenhearted. Thus, the popular novel of Helen Hunt Jackson as screened by United Artists. Dolores Del Rio, always throbbing, is at her best...
Shortly Monsieur Londres found, as the League of Nations had discovered before him, that the problem of the male souteneur is, if possible, more basic than that of the white slave herself. If is the souteneur who sniffs about Europe until he finds a poor and not too homely "baggage," wins her by offering food if she is starving, buys her from debased parents if necessary, scrubs her up if she is filthy, and smuggles her out to the Argentine on a passport doctored or forged to show that the "baggage" is not "underweight" (i.e. under the age of consent...
...mighty story. The reason is Raquel Meller (pronounced May-aire), the sorceress whose rich voice, ink-black locks, hands like moonstruck faces bewitched Manhattanites at $27.50 a head, two springs ago (TIME, April 26, 1926). She is a Carmen incarnate, and not a little carnal. No wonder poor Don Jose (Louis Lerch) became a thief and a murderer! No wonder the audience forgot that the photography was a trifle blinking...
...Blue Danube. A nobleman refuses to marry a rich brewer's daughter, while he woos a poor innkeeper's daughter (Leatrice Joy), while an unloved hunchback (Joseph Schildkraut) stabs himself, while the captions say over & over: "Always remember that as long as the Danube flows, I shall love you." Nicely filmed and dull...
...early '90's, Mr. Rockefeller put his philanthropies on a wholesale scale. He had always been a devout Baptist, a Sunday school teacher since he was 20. When a comparatively poor man, in 1870, he gave $20,000 to help build the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland. His first huge gift was for a Baptist-affiliated institution of learning?the University of Chicago (founded 1892). He plunged into the giving business as systematically as he had into oil. He trained John D. Jr. to succeed him in both. And then, in 1911,** he entered the business of pleasure...