Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FRANK CRUMIT, soulful-songster of comic balads has produced "Bride's Lament" and "Jack is Every Inch a Sailor". The funniest thing about them is that when written, they weren't supposed to be funny...
...lady of joy. The magistrate discharges the prisoner-gob, saying, "Instead of protecting you from these young men, we should protect them from you." This is not one of the best pieces, but it is one of Clara Bow's best. One Jack Oakie, as a sailor named "Searchlight," ought to get somewhere as a character actor with the flattest face on the two-dimensional medium. James Hall and the subtitles make the breezy gob almost true...
...from the greater world (Paris left-bank); a young girl's brooding over an implied sadistic horror-these are subject to Author Wescott's youthful scrutiny. He has a marked gift for creating atmospheric effects, and a keen sense of human drama ("In a Thicket," "Like a Lover," "The Sailor"); but, immature in his aping, he caters too much to Proust and Joyce...
Contrary, to the rumor current last season that the University Band was going to adopt a new uniform. It was announced yesterday that the traditional costume consisting of crimson sweater, and sailor caps would be preserved. The Alumni advisor committee for the Band objected to a change of regalia when proposed some time ago and their decision has since influenced the officers of the organization against innovations in this respect. The drum major, however, will wear a crimson coat this fall in place of the customary sweater in order more conveniently to carry his signalling pistol and similar paraphernalia...
Author Galsworthy was born in 1867, of oldest and best Devonshire stock. He qualified for the law, but was sufficiently well off to be bored with it and travel. On a voyage between Adelaide and Cape Horn he became fast friends with Joseph Conrad, sailor. Thereupon he took to writing. Besides the volumes of the Forsyte saga, which total with the swan song 2,000 pages, he has done numerous other novels (The Patrician, etc.), stories (Five Tales, etc.), and powerful plays (Strife, Justice, The Skin Game, etc.). Of recent years his hobby has been launching obscure writers. Trader Horn...