Word: showings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Show Boat (Universal). The problem of knitting episodes of a novel in a way that will reduce or eliminate, for picture purposes, the chapters introduced to show the passage of time, is emphasized in Edna Ferber's romance of Mississippi minstrels because her story touches three generations of show people and includes the life of one of them from childhood to maturity. This was not the only problem that confronted Producer Carl Laemmle when, having bought the cinema rights to Miss Ferber's book, he bought also the rights to the musical comedy that Florenz Ziegfeld had made...
Helen Morgan, star of the stage Show Boat, cast in the prolog of the picture to sing some of her songs, was a 16-year-old shopgirl when a group of Chicago admirers bought her a ticket to Montreal where she won $1,000 in a beauty contest. Later, in the cast of George White's Scandals, she began to sing songs sitting, droop-lipped, on a piano; then in Americana, then in her own night club, she climbed from the piano-top to success. When Miami persuaded Universal to hold the film premiere of Show Boat...
...formal show of sovereign independence, Cuba remains a U. S. appendix, attached not only by trade and finance but semi-politically by the Platt Amendment. Said this provision (tacked on to the 1901 Army Appropriation Bill and never since retracted): "The government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the protection of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty. ..." It was under this authority that the U. S. Army occupied Cuba from 1906 to 1909 to suppress uprisings and restore constitutional government...
Life. Tom Mix last week agreed to quit cinema and work for the 101 Ranch Wild West Show for the rest of his career. Alleged inducement: $15,000 per week...
Exports to Germany showed considerable decrease, but large gains by France and Italy helped show a general addition in Continental purchasing power. Germany bought more automobiles, less wheat, cotton and flour; remained best Continental customer...