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...shoot an arrow from a six-foot yew-bow, to hit a golf ball, to throw a baseball, to cast a heavy fishing-slug for distance in the surf -manly exercises all. But does the missile fly farthest from rod, arm, club or bow? Which engine is superior in speed, in accuracy? A hypothetical question, surely; one that might be debated i Erewhon on Midsummer Day, with Walter Travis expatiating kindly to Amos Rusie, Izaak Walton put-tnig in a gnarled, shy word, and the laughter of Robin Hood foaming clear and soft like...
...Coming of Amos-Rod LaRoque's face has been widely distributed over the countryside on billboards announcing him as a star of the new Cecil B. DeMille organization. His first picture is a retelling of William J. Locke's tale of the young Australian roughneck who saves a Russian princess on the Riviera. Good enough...
Already half a mile above land, their ship was being drawn with incredible speed by this last, fiercest rod of wind another mile upward...
Wild, Wild Susan. Bebe Daniels has fallen into the clutches of another ponderous plot. It is a burlesque melodrama which calls for her appearance in overalls. There is also Rod La Rocque...
Night Life of New York. Dorothy Gish, Rod LaRocque and Ernest Torrence are no trivial trio to begin with, and their current fable gives good opportunity. It is another light comedy, the tale of a Western youth cast loose along Broadway with adequate funds. It brings in, by picture and by name, all the actual night clubs of the district, a comely telephone operator, a father who fails to impress upon his son the ultimate delights of the domestic fireside...