Word: serialized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinclair Lewis of the South, began his writing career with stories for Sunday-school publications. He passed on to plotty melodramas for paper-pulp magazines, rose to heights in Birthright and Teef-tallow. Strange Moon drops back to the pulp level. Possibly it is a resurrection from his serial days. Or perhaps it just reflects Author Stribling's habit of writing in a reclining position...
...picture then slows to an annoying pace. Even the Indian war dance and struggles atop high precipices fail to arouse the average movie goer. A climax in which the hero races a Ford containing two cheating palefaces is replete with all the nonsensical devices which made the western serial thrill of 10 years ago pass into bad repute...
There is a capital hit at "art moderne" in the page headed "Gift Suggestions in the Modern Spirit." There is perhaps a little too much flattery of Fougasse--three pages of small, serial drawings are rather a big dose, even for those who have formed the habit Blackburn's drawings are a good corrective: he wields a broad brush, and his humor is not thin...
...star serial feature of Britannia's first issue, "My Life,'' by Benito Mussolini, has already appeared in Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' Saturday Evening Post...
...Gangster is the autobiography of a gangster adapted from a serial in the Saturday Evening Post. Beer-drinking as a baby, sneak-thieving as a schoolboy, pool-playing, loafing, robbing, killing?such things, say numerous subtitles, land young men in the jug. In spite of the monotonous effort of the script to point a moral. Director Raoul Walsh has made this rather gentle document of crook life effective by little niceties?the ward-heeler spitting in the hand, extended for a friendly shake, of the gangster who taught his son bad ways; the prisoner in the visiting room who wants...