Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great lords' joke was a cartoon by "Low"' (famed David Low), which appeared in The Evening Standard, a paper owned jointly by Beaverbrook and Rothermere but controlled by the former. Cartoonist "Low" took as his theme a new version of the old song "Who Killed Cock Robin?" illustrating each verse as follows...
...tariff theme lent itself also to the one embarrassing feature of the New England visit?the depression, in the textile industry. Nominee Hoover said he thought textiles had "turned the corner." He also, surprising no one, said: "Any change in the present policy of protection would without question result in a flood of foreign textile products which would mean no less than ruin to New England industry, both manufacturers and workmen...
NIGHT HOSTESS?A few more notes, sounded on gat and saxophone, on the theme of Broadway (TIME, Sept...
...Tribune (Republican) has been, except for his "Tammany Farmers" series,* quiet and conventional. The Tribune has to be wet in Chicago and no organ in the city that gave William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson to the G. O. P. can afford to go very strongly on the Tammany-corruption theme. The "Tammany Farmers" series has stressed urban ignorance and presumption rather than any sinister note. Quite as characteristic of the G. O. P. sermons which the Tribune's front page often preaches, such as a picture of "Uncle Sam" painting a sign on the Capitol: "Wanted!?Man to head...
...four devils are acrobats, two male, two female, who come to the top trapeze of their profession. The story deals principally with the love of two of the foursome (Janet Gaynor and Charles Morton) and a rather elaborate exposition of backstage life?perennially acceptable theme. The discordant note in the quartet comes with the entrance of a strident villainess (Mary Duncan), done in the grandiose manner of Bara-esque sirens. In the early moments of the piece, when the child-lives of the four devils are revealed, two cinemasters, two cinemisses take the parts of the four devils...