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...they are supposed to be the greatest backfield in the U. S. The clowning of Leo Carrillo and Ted Healy. each of whom sets fire to the seat of the other's pants, does not save The Band Plays On from being worse than most of its kind. Silliest shot: Betty Furness telling her fiance, Robert Young, that he must continue college because as soon as he becomes a lawyer they will have plenty of money. The Mighty Barnum (Twentieth Century) introduces its hero (Wallace Beery) as the proprietor of a Manhattan general store, busily trading lightning rods...
...Francisco, pawning his typewriter, finding a little brown snake in a park, being kept after school because he had laughed at the teacher, a bum who was still too dignified to sell dirty postcards. At times he seems as inept an introspective fumbler as Sherwood Anderson at his silliest, but at others he gets nearer the gist of the matter than Anderson at his most inspired. Though Saroyan has a contempt for cleverness, literariness, his searching simplicity sometimes accomplishes cleverness' own job. Saroyan sometimes uses the impressionistic patter of his day, but plain readers will feel themselves most directly...
...Barton exposed 25 ft. of cinema film and took five stills on supersensitive plates. Soon the dripping ball was on the barge deck again and the divers popped out. Said Dr. Beebe: "I have never seen so much stuff in my life, and new stuff, too. It is the silliest thing in the world to attempt to describe it in a few words...
...Barrymore plays a sniveling old Confederate veteran, full of pride, a musty love affair and corn whiskey. Best shot: Barrymore, under the delusion that he is again commanding troops in the field, shouldering his cane, marching off down the great hall to shoot himself dead in the back yard. Silliest shot: a ball at Connelly Hall immediately after the First Battle of Bull Run attended by President Davis and Generals Lee, Jackson and Beauregard...
...sold the Sun to his brother-in-law, Moses Yale Beach, for $40,000, and 30 years later said it was the silliest thing he ever did. The Beach family managed the paper for 30 years, except for the period from 1860-62 when a religious group edited it and held noon prayer meetings in the city room. Then in 1868 a group of investors headed by Charles Anderson Dana bought the Sun for $175,000, moved it lock, stock & barrel to the fusty old building on Nassau Street...