Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perseverance and a fourth attempt produced a movietone considered excellent for electioneering purposes, though most people would rather hear-see one of the others...
...Last week these young women were extremely anxious about their Chinaman and whence next month's rent was coming. They went down on their marble terrace and peered through foolish, expensive little opera glasses out over the Yellow Sea, strained their eyes toward the Chinese coast, tried to see a low, rakish ship. Aboard would be, they hoped, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World," as Marshal Chang Tsung-chang is called by one of his English-speaking women, Miss Anabelle ("Trixie") Cronan...
...Notwithstanding the intelligent censorship which Chile has established over plays and cinemas, parents cannot be sure that their children will see a type of performance designed to improve their morals and character. The average modern drama not only lacks good taste and educational art entirely but generally depicts robberies, disorders and the baser passions. The Municipality of Santiago will present in our new Children's Theatre plays especially written for children only. There will be some free performances so that the children of the poor, as well as the wealthy, may enjoy this wholesome influence...
...Adventures of Maya (German). U. S. folk of all sizes and ages will go many times to see how the blunt bee survived the perfidy of the green spider and the mischief of hornets to bring the message of battle to his drowsy queen. This picture took six years to make and is a coherent, exciting story in which all the actors and actresses are insects. Best shot: the warring swarms among looted honeycombs...
Madame X (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When the heroine, drunken, degraded, cast off by her husband and forbidden to see her son, screams to the bully who has beaten her that some day her son will be big enough to revenge her?when she is brought to court a murderess, too poor to hire a lawyer, and the judge appoints to defend her a handsome young man, yes, the son himself?and when the young man passionately and skillfully pleads the cause of the outcast woman?it all seems, on cool reflection, too crude to be true. But audiences...