Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary. Norma Shearer, now an accepted star in the Metro firmament, spends the first part of this picture looking homely and the last part her loveliest. In the homely part she is a stenographer; later she marries one of the firm. The first part is amusing and the second fairly dull, if indeed peering at the gorgeous countenance of Miss Shearer is ever dull...
...Francisco the "All-Western Eleven," made up of star players from Leland Stanford, the University of California, Oregon Agricultural College, etc., defeated 6 to 0 the "All-Eastern Eleven," whose players hailed from West Point, the University of Michigan, Florida State, Pittsburgh, Drake, Iowa, Georgia Tech, etc. The proceeds of the fray went to the local Hospital for Crippled Children, and the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine were responsible for staging what proved to be a combined football game and babbitts' revel. To drum up publicity, one Hugh K. McKevitt, Illustrious Potentate, ardent Mystic...
...building is more to be noted as a guiding star for modern Greece. That country sank to the depths of degeneration under Turkish rule. Curiously, it is Turkish action in purposely strangling the purposely of Constantinople for the benefit of Angora that is turning Mediterranean commerce to Grecian cities, particularly to Athens and its point of Piraeus. Greece has the material necessities for an era of prosperity, but she is still in the clutches of technical methods which are anachronisms from the days before the Industrial Revolution. In the construction of this new library America has furnished the surrounding country...
...School for Scandal. The all-star touring company presenting Sheridan's play stopped off in Manhattan for a one-night stand and invited an imposing list of notables to witness its magnificence. In the lower boxes were Ethel Barrymore, Walter Hampden, Mrs. Samuel Insull (now playing Lady Teazle elsewhere), Laurette Taylor. All this was rather gorgeous but detracted somewhat from the events on the stage. The events were somewhat at fault themselves and the evening was not conspicuously satisfactory...
...light-heavyweight, is another gentleman who believes implicitly in the might of his right mauler. Standing in the middle of the most magnificent prize-ring in the world-a ring with posts of brass, bucket-holders of brass, seats braced with brass, and ropes of bottle-green plush-the Star Chamber of the new Madison Square Garden, Manhattan-he pushed that fist so violently into the face of Paul Berlenbach that the latter fell down and reclined on his side, head, ear, shoulders, hips and legs. The referee's arm began to rise and fall and a great crowd...