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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Niagara Falls to make his fortune as a song writer in Manhattan, never realizing at first that "Broadway may seem on the level, but it's a steep grade when you try to make it." It is Kitten who pushes him up. Singed (Blanche Sweet). With her wealth, a dancing girl sets a bum up in the oil business. They both become millionaires, whereupon the man (Warner Baxter) comes down with acute social aspiration. San Francisco society, however, will never accept him as long as he associates with "that infamous Mrs. Wall." In the end he overcomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 25, 1927 | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...ground. Corn should be from five to six feet high?even where it has been planted it is only a foot or less out of the ground. Only an abnormally long summer can save even a fraction of these two main crops. Farmers have been experimenting with soy beans, sweet potatoes, cabbages, crops as strange to them "as Broadway to an Eskimo." It is a land where cotton is king, and the king is dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Aftermath | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

Jeers. "We respectfully suggest that the last sweet dose of love and kisses be ladled out to Mr. Ford's new-found friends by leaving the name Ford off the new car. Let it be called instead, let us say, the Solomon Six, or the Abraham Straight-8"?New York Daily News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Apology to Jews | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

WHEREAS, The tonic atmosphere of New Mexico is tired nature's sweet restorer and its civilization as old as yesterday and as young as tomorrow and its history crammed with antiquity and artistic interest as well as with grandeur of natural scenery, of mountain, and plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Dawes Vacation | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

Welcome. "Welcomed to Denver by whooping cowboys firing six-guns in salvos, by knife-wielding 'Injuns,' by rough and tumble cops, clanging police patrols and screaming fire wagons, not to mention dang sweet-looking cowgirls in fo' gallon hats and white riding breeches, the delegates to Denver's most important 1927 convention were all nerves at 9:30 o'clock at the Broadway Theatre, when C. K. Woodbridge, president of the whole shebang, brought his gavel down with a resounding wallop. And then, while startled lady delegates mumbled prayers and the more timid male admen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: International Advertisers | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

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