Word: roguish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert A. Carter, 32, intriguing fictionist, became managing editor of John B. Kelly's air-fiction magazine Wings. He "wrote" good stories which Mr. Kelly gladly published. But one was a word-for-word steal from another "air" magazine, Air Trails, whose publisher complained. Last week roguish Mr. Carter was in jail for confessed fraud...
Hungarian Rhapsody (UFA). This German picture contains no dialog but its fiddles playing Magyar melodies are well recorded. Manufactured for the U. S. box office and released through Paramount, it tells about a middle-class girl who sacrifices herself for an impoverished and roguish nobleman because she respects his class. Stock characters of continental drama photographed with fine craftsmanship against their native background seem no more credible than in Hollywood pictures where this background has been artificially reproduced...
These things and many another happened during the first minute after 7 p.m., when a roguish sixty-second cyclone struck London, killed none, injured...
...dams and husbanding food through lean seasons. Any man of distinctive personality and appearance resembles some animal. Senator Borah is a bear; Secretary Mellon, an aging horse of fine blood; Senator Heflin, an astounding whale calf; Senator Johnson, a caged lion; Senator Norris, an owl; Senator Watson, a roguish elephant; Charles Evans Hughes, a lofty mountain goat; Will H. Hays, a monkey; Curtis Dwight Wilbur, a stork. Herbert Clark Hoover is a beaver-man, aged 53, in his prime...
...Showdown," now on view at the Metropolitan, is obviously modelled on the first Bancroft-Brent opus. Unfortunately it doesn't quite come off: it is an entertaining film and in places a very good film, but it suffers by comparison. Bancroft looks extremely roguish and in spite of the fact that he is cast as a Diamond in the Rough he manages to leave the impression of good clean villainy. Miss Brent, playing a girl reeking with refinement for the first part of the picture, redeems herself by going slightly but uncontrollably native in the latter half. Which brings...