Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Capitulates. Chang and Sun met at Nanking, west of Shanghai, last week. The tall, heavy-muscled Chang curtly told the man from whom he had accepted $2,000,000 that gold was a thing of the past. Remained steel and lead. In these Chang predominated. He Would be generous. Sun might keep his head upon his shoulders...
...burlesques the cinema in several moderately boisterous skits. It insists upon novelty by presenting a horse that Charlestons, by leading onto the stage a bull with a ring in his soft nose, by allowing trapeze acrobats to fly about overhead (as in the film, Variety). It does all these things forthrightly, evincing honest desire to give the public a Super-Feature Musical Comedy Satire, as advertised. The funniest thing of all is when the hero, protesting his constant affection for the heroine who is about to leave him and home for Hollywood, suddenly ceases his disconsolate farewell sobbing to administer...
...Honey" (Josephine Dunn), a sweet maid from the country; a leering villain of the Metropolis; a proud, penniless architect. There is also Love Divine. The director displayed on the screen a facsimile of the story in Liberty Magazine on which the film is based, thus proving conclusively that the thing really has a plot...
...orchidaceous Greta Garbo in "Flesh and the Devil", because of the rumor that the film would be censored after the police department had had a chance to feast its eyes on the square-head's curves. Robert Sherwood said it was a good thing that the smooth Swede was married to John Gilbert before the scenes were shot. It was really rather a Puritan precaution, we hear, but it may serve to raise their divorcing average...
...afternoon tea at President and Mrs. Langdon's, or even throwing eggs at the Hessian military police in the hopes of starting a massacre. At any rate the artist of the University Theatre did not see any students near the elm. The picture of Mr. Washington was the best thing of the evening's boredom...