Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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POLLY PREFERRED?Genevieve Tobin appears in a comedy with a perfect first act. A go-getter, finding a pretty girl stranded in the Automat, makes a movie star and eventually a wife out of her. A burlesque director furnishes many a laugh...
Yesterday afternoon the distance men were coached by L. H. Shields, the former Penn State star. Shields, who was developed by Coach Martin while he was at Penn State, won the intercollegiate championship in the mile in 1921 and 1922, his best time for this distance being 4 minutes 18 4-10 seconds. The candidates for the mile and two-mile events gained much from the work of Shields, who put on a track suit and worked out with the men whom he was instructing...
...brought to trial. The specific charge was violation of the Michigan state criminal syndicalism law. The prosecution contended that Foster was a member of an organization (the Trade Union Educational League, a subsidiary of the Communist Party) which advocated violence in overthrowing the Government of the United States. The star witness of the prosecution was "K-97," an agent provocateur in the employ of the Burns Detective Agency, who attended the convention as a delegate and turned informer on the defendants. The defense, conducted by Frank P. Walsh, former joint chairman with ex-President Taft of the War Labor Board...
John Powell, the American composer who has used American Negro tunes so extensively in his compositions, has given to The Kansas City Star a statement that will seem to many a strange pronouncement. Powell does not think that Negro music can figure considerably in the development of an American national school of music. Says The Star: "At any rate, Powell does not believe they (Negro spirituals) can justly be made the basis of a national American school -because, he declares, there is not the least kinship between the Negro and the descendants of the first English settlers, who still...
...with a plating of austerity because he has vast power. If they only would think of him as WARREN !" In his series of articles on American newspapers, appearing in The Nation, Oswald Garrison Villard last week described the Hearst press. Journals previously treated have included The Kansas City Star, The Public Ledger (Philadelphia), The New York World, the Jewish Forward...