Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elsie. Just another musical comedy, picked, it would seem, at random from the patent filing case of girl and musical entertainment. The plot, formula 7-B, concerns itself with the wastrel son of a rich and rather bourgeois family, who marries an actress in defiance of his parents' social ambitions for him, and then, calling to his aid the spirit of love, sweetness and light, makes them approve of her and repent their boorish behavior toward her. The music written by Sissle and Blake, authors of the Negro jazz revue Shuffle Along, and Carlo and Sanders, composers of the musical...
Edward W. Bok Encourages All Young Men To Be Honest, Rich and Spiritual...
...Jerusalem, he says: "The sad little Zionist settlements are bankrupt; they live on foreign alms. They were built upon a fantastically uneconomic foundation. The opulent dreamers of an exiled Jewry have grown weary of pouring their donations into an insatiable soil of a thirsty land. Without the largesse of rich American and European Jews, Zionism cannot live an hour longer...
...feels that she is committing an error, and crawls back. The native kills a brutal trader to whom her father was going to marry her, and she tells him that she cannot go with him. He kills himself. The whole story is told without heroics, without sentimentality, with a rich and mysterious beauty. It is a masterpiece. Safety Last. Harold Lloyd is one of the very few who can be laughed at in the same breath as the mighty Chaplin. So it is annoying to have him spoil it all in his first seven-reel picture by falling back...
Every once in a while a murder is committed that unites in one "news story" all the sleeping romantic fancies of human nature. Such a murder is the Dorothy King case. It has love (and illicit love-which is always more fascinating), riches, social prestige, an underworld motif, intrigue and violence. It appeals to snobbery, outraged morality, pity, terror and man's appetite for the human hunt. Thousands of plain people, reading the lurid three-page account in the Hearst press, can imagine themselves either the beautiful Broadway butterfly, Dorothy King; the rich and socially prominent "angel...