Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which nothing is happening and nothing seems likely to. His plays are always full of motion and noise which carry with them a crude but undeniable demand for attention. Gang War deals with the adventures of a beer king who is engaged in guerrilla fighting with members of a rival bootlegging concession. Also, he has two frails, of whom one gets quickly killed. So does the beer king and many another. In the last act one gang drops bombs on the other from an airplane, filling the theatre with smoke and confusion. The action-of which there is plenty...
...Ohio, hoping Daughter will be disillusioned by his Old World fragrance among robustuous U. S. odors. Chameleon Pierre turns Babbitt, nearly estranges the girl while ingratiating himself with her father, ultimately wins her with a recrudescence of Gallic passion when his success is dramatically jeopardized by an American rival. The farce is spotted with easy gags, is occasionally deft, never hysterical. Kenneth MacKenna as Pierre, Lucile Nikolas as Barbara, Harlan Briggs as Father make the most of it, provide an evening of contented chuckling...
...snorting, supercharged horses clopped over the steeplechase course at Lancaster County (Pa.) fair last week. One horse eased past the other, the race was between the two. As he eased past his rival Jockey Moler brought his riding-crop down upon the shoulders of Rival-Jockey Fisher. Though no jockey may be penalized if in the frenzy of the home stretch he thwacks his mount, he shall be punished if caught in the act of thwacking a competing jockey. Moler passed the finish line ahead of his rival but was disqualified for striking him: the race went to Fisher...
...operation was called off. The mother of the twins became anxious and the girls hobbled away from their hospital to their home in Holyoke, Mass. With them they had a fat contract for 15 weeks in vaudeville; not, however, with Press-agent Turner's organization but with its rival, Keith...
...will own power developments of 1,500,000 h.p., capable of being increased to 3,000,Gigantic as this combine appears, International Paper considered, last week, yet another merger of giant proportions. To the already great capacity of its 30-odd mills, it contemplated adding the resources of the rival Abitibi Power and Paper Co., Ltd. Abitibi Power holdings, developed and in reserve, amount to 700,000 h. p. Timber resources approximate 55,000,000 cords. Its mills can turn out 650,000 tons of newsprint yearly. Should Abitibi merge with International Paper, the resulting company would in effect dominate...