Word: successively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anything more flat-footed and uninteresting than that of past Pudding shows. H memory fails not, there was one good step; this was too bad, as consequences was to make the rest seem just so much more heavy. An individual tap dance by Pliny Jewell '30 was crowned with success, and made one wish for a few more like...
...Trial of Mary Dugan (Metro Goldwyn Mayer). Once more the unity of time and scene and the concentration of dialog made possible by a courtroom play have been utilized in an effective sound-picture. The story, adapted without alteration from a recent stage success, and directed by the author, Bayard Veiller, concerns a showgirl, who is tried for the murder of her lover and is defended by her brother, a lawyer. Best shot?Norma Shearer telling how she paid for her brother's education...
Pale, sharp-featured, Cineman Fox plasters his thin hair over his head to make it reach as far as possible. With a similar objective, but with greater success, he has recently expanded with purchase after purchase his enormous business organization. Born in Tulchva, Hungary, in 1879, he came, a small boy, to Manhattan's East Side, there peddled shoe polish which his father made over the family stove. Later, he sponged pants, coats in a Manhattan tailoring shop. Still later he cut out cloak and suit patterns for $17 a week. Twenty-five years ago, when feature pictures were...
Last week in a Manhattan vaudeville theatre a man was speaking. "Nietzsche's," he said, "is the present philosophy of the Occidental world, with its gospel of self-assertion and self-expression, personal liberty and personal success." Beside him, on the stage, white lilies curved from the mouths of six vases. "Christ's stern and gentle philosophy, so much more readily understood by the Oriental mind, is the way of self-abnegation, of losing oneself in something beyond oneself." Occasionally, an Indian name came to his lips, hesitant syllables cascaded to a tenebrous penult: Rabindranath Tagore. Sometimes he men- tioned...
...goodly number of months have gone by since the announcement of Mr. Harkness' gift. Nothing new has developed; the success of the plan is no more determined than before, as only trial can settle that point. And yet each week our honored and respected friends across the Common grow more and more irate and troubled...