Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were paid $7.50 (regular pay per day for extras) and given a good lunch by Marion Davies for showing their faces on her location. Only she and William Haines were in working clothes that day. taking the last scenes of a comedy about a girl who lets the movies swell her head. Hollywood directors distrust pictures that turn the camera on itself, believing illusion is an asset always more valuable than intimacy. Their belief is supported by Show People which, in spite of Marion Davies' acting. King Vidor's directing, and the hilarious rehearsal of a pie-comedy...
...universal talent to satisfy The demand completely. Ventriloquists, sleight of hand performers, and experts in Ju Jitsu, are only a few of the special artists asked for from time to time Requests for expert accountants, advanced Greek scholars, experienced house painters, furnace men, and life guards help to swell the list of possible employments...
From the Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville, Tenn., last week came a strange suggestion to the nuns of his diocese. "Don't vote," he said in effect. His reason: the obvious hostile comment upon nuns' voting would be that they were helping to swell the Smith vote total and that the Church was massed for Smith; this he wished to avoid...
...been indicted. In 1916 he was accused of handling tainted money, but the charge languished and died in Chicago's political limbo. This time the charge was conspiracy to protect gambling and vice resorts on Chicago's vice-ridden South Side. The boodle exacted went to swell Mayor Thompson's campaign fund, it was charged...
...FOLKS AT HOME was rather more than we could see until we heard it. But consider! Directed by Nat Shilkert we have the REVELERS, PAUL ROBISON, the JUBILEE SINGERS, VAUGHN DE LEATH and the VICTOR SALON ORCHESTRA, Gorgeous or chestration-one selection melting into another! A perfectly swell album-at six dollars...