Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into polite society. The slick city men hornswoggle him when he plays the stock market. But, finally, by virile tactics, he gets even with them and marches out of their office with a big black bag containing $3,000,000. Then dat ole debbil Burning Daylight says to his sweetheart (Mrs. Milton Sills, the onetime Doris Kenyon): "Let's go back to Alaska." And, three guesses and no fair peeking, who wrote the original story...
...duty by Murderers Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray at Sing Sing Prison last fortnight. The report was false. Executioner Elliott had neither collapsed nor resigned. Nor did he collapse late last week when he pulled the switch that sent Leon Scovern, 20, to death for the murder of a sweetheart's brother...
...Zazu Pitts, Ford Sterling, and Tom Kennedy they reach new heights of hilarity which are diverting, if not side-splitting. In the war scenes we have a burlesque of "What Price Glory," "The Big Parade" and "Wings"; later, after the armistice, Raymond Hatton returns to America leaving his French sweetheart in charge of Wallace Beery. An edict that all young women marry immediately, or something similar, complicates things and Beery appropriates the woman in the case. Hatton come back and intrigue, duels and the hatching of a brood of ducks by Beery keeps the comedy of this fast team from...
...digs the vein deeper than it is ever dug by dramatic U. S. journalism or journalistic U. S. drama, is a thrust of reason which Europeans do not fear to exert in their most fantastic moods. Franzi, the roustabout hero of Peripherie, murders a wealthy patron of his harlot sweetheart. He successfully disposes of the corpse but is hounded by his conscience into confessions, which none will believe. Theatre-goers to whom spoken German conveys no meaning may miss the specific but not the general philosophizing. A thumb, a hip, an eyebrow, drilled by Reinhardt, can beggar the average theatre...
...City Gone Wild becomes, suddenly and unfortunately, in the midst of a great crackle of bullets and bad-words, a cinema gone mild. It ends in a crescendo of sentimentality when Thomas Meighan, the lawyer for many a badman of the underworld, reforms and, as crusader, discovers that his sweetheart's father is the biggest gun among the gunmen. Eventually, the guilty are punished and the innocent spared...