Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, you are like the reviewer and have no predetermined feeling for or against Miss Daniels, the matter becomes more difficult-if you take your movie going seriously enough to wonder about such things. The show tries awfully hard to be a roaring, ripsnorting tale of a milk-fed, misanthropic young lady-Miss Daniels-who gets mixed up in a a war among bootleggers, hi-jackers, and revenue officers. After numberless corpses have been strewn about the scene, she is able to declare that at last she has found Adventure and Romance with a capital "A" and a capital...
Director Curtiz had opened this picture with such simple symbolism as a skinny cat sniffing garbage pails, following with a tale whose luridity dated back to the Black Crook, famed thriller. This one paraded the emotions of Rose Shannon, night club dancer who loved a handsome bank robber (Conrad Nagel). Eventually, wildly, wrongly, she is suspected of stealing, is arrested, scared under the third degree, where the spoken dialogue is first heard. To end this whole experimental footage, the actors use the academic, classic embrace...
Police brutality, onerous anti-picketing injunctions, and the breakdown of the Jacksonville agreement were the burden of Mr. Lewis' tale which rambled somewhat under stress of emotion. President Coolidge's letter to Mr. Lewis in December 1925, was read into the record deploring "the breaking of any contract," explaining why the U. S. could not intervene, referring the miners to the courts, pronouncing collective bargaining to be "a principle now accepted in American life." Mr. Lewis repeated the miners' charge that railroads, notably the Pennsylvania, had thumbscrewed the mine operators into thumbscrewing the miners. The names "Rockefeller...
Giuseppe Adami made a sorry tale out of scraps some twelve years ago, called it La Rondine (The Swallow) and gave it to Giacomo Puccini. Puccini, himself light-minded at the time, applied a handful of tunes, spliced them in his own skillful way and the result was a "lyric comedy in three acts" that had an indifferent sort of premiere at Monte Carlo in 1917. Last week and by courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera Company it was given its first performance...
...Travels. The author does indeed seem to advocate demagogy, and polygamy; does indeed say his say against the established practice of medicine and law, and the fashion of childlessness. But all so casually that the reader need not take him seriously, is in fact far too engrossed with the tale to bother with the sociology, or the presence of occasional unwarranted melodrama. For Deluge is an excellent good yarn. It is also this month's Book of the Month, chosen by the famed club of that name and purchased by its 73,000 members...