Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thursday morning, Milton Sills, a star of the First National Pictures. Inc., will consider the place of the motion picture actor in the industry...
...April, 1912, nobody followed icebergs, which drifted free, unchaperoned. One drifted into the liner Titanic, then the pride of the White Star Line. The Titanic sank with 1,513 people. Now, in April, 1927, with transatlantic travel reaching its spring height, with glacier-born icebergs drifting busily south, the Tampa, the Modoc sail northward, charged with preventing a repetition of the Titanic disaster...
...years of age he intends to duplicate General Motors -by means of Consolidated Motors Inc., which he has just had incorporated in Delaware. And "exactly as the Buick in 1908 was used as the nucleus and the keystone of the great General Motors," he intends to use the new Star Six as the sill timber of his new structure. For supports, braces and superstructures to this he can furnish other companies that he controls-Durant Motors Inc. (makers of Star and Durant motor cars), American Plate Glass Co., Motors Parts Corp., New Process Gear Co., Warner Corp., Locomobile...
Even Mr. Durant's explanation of why he is promoting the new Star Six and backing Consolidated Motors Inc. met with dubiety. He advertised: "The name Durant shall stand for something better than a football in Wall Street." The New York Times writer knew that, even though Mr. Durant's name may be a football of Wall Street, Mr. Durant himself is one of its most skilled footballers; hurt in a railroad accident and bedridden, yet he bravely persisted in his stock market activities (TIME, Feb. 1, 1926) ; practically impoverished after he was ousted from General Motors...
...cinema is interpolated into the second act, revealing the wheels of propaganda at work, affording respite to taut nerves in the audience. Martin Henderson is filmed "Enlisting with Uncle Sam at a dollar a year." In the end, young Parkman turns up, only wounded. The band plays "The Star-Spangled Banner" to a happy curtain...