Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eagels how she fired the shot that saved her virtue. None has begun her testimony with a more positive knowledge of her guilt fixed in the minds of the audience, which has seen her a minute before, transformed with fury, committing the actual murder. Rather an effective contralto phonograph record than a moving picture, the film follows the construction of Somerset Maugham's short story, a successful legitimate play last year, about the temptations of white people in Singapore. Best shot: A battle between a mongoose and a cobra. (Originally released by Ufa as a short feature this interjection...
Speakeasy (Fox) is a hasty commercial attempt to record the sounds of a great city-a fight at Madison Square Garden, a crowd at the racetrack, trains in the Grand Central Station, Manhattan traffic. To provide a framework for the noise a girl reporter risks worse than death in interviewing a pug who takes his rubdown before his shower, chats happily with his trainer 30 seconds after being knocked down three times and finally counted out in the ring, and who looks as though he wore a size 13 collar. Other inaccuracies mark a picture which as a story seems...
...Cosmopolitan reached newsstands was the truth let out. Then, because other magazines were beginning to get publicity by boasting of similar features to come, Editor Long announced that the leading article of the April Cosmopolitan was "On Entering and Leaving the Presidency," by Calvin Coolidge. Thus were the Coolidge record for silence, and the Coolidge respect for the dignity of office, kept unblemished. Thus did Editor Long cash the publicity of his surprise at practically face value. Contrary to early reports, the first instalment of the Coolidge article was not written on a train between Washington and the Bok bird...
Texas Corp. (Texaco gasoline and oil helped Capt. Hawks & Mechanic Grubb break coast-to-coast flight record): $45,073,879 as against...
...Last week, also, an increase of capital stock by $500,000,000 was planned by directors of mighty A. T. & T. Stockholders surmised that this move, like those of U. S. Steel and Anaconda, might lead to bond redemption. A. T. & T. will thus break one more world's record in size. It will be the first corporation with $2,000,000,000 capital...