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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Footlights and Fools (First National). In wigs and short silk dancing clothes, against elaborate colored settings Colleen Moore plays a French actress in love with a race-track tout. The wandering story is handled in the superficial awkward way common to films in which the plot is merely a series of hooks for hanging up songs and dances. It is unfortunate under the circumstances that Colleen Moore has little singing voice and cannot dance. A typical Irish-American girl, spontaneous and convincing in parts that are natural to her, she is clearly uncomfortable in Footlights and Fools. Silliest shot: Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...canvas because he could then work anywhere and the murals, when finished, could be easily moved about. He then asked himself what paint had had the benefit of most research and chemical improvement. Obviously, automobile-paint. He hired a workshop, made sketches in pen, pencil, paint. Models of every race and color trooped in and out. The better to understand three-dimensional space he first modelled his groups so that he could look down upon their heads and look behind them to find what masses would organize best, what planes intersect. Then he loaded his big brush with auto-paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: History of Commerce | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Bicycle Race at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Booth, star quarterback of the Yale eleven, is far ahead of the field in the race between Harvard and Yale players for scoring honors. He has compiled a total of 68 points to date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOTH WAY AHEAD IN H-Y RACE FOR SCORING PALM | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...clock the Harvard University cross country team will entrain for New York, where the annual I. C. A. A. A. A. meet will take place Monday afternoon over the regular Van Cortlandt Park course. Eight runners will make the trip, of whom seven will start the race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSS COUNTRY SQUAD TO GO TOMORROW AFTERNOON | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

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