Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...superfluous. On its delivery, compliment is due. Marguerite Namara, lately with the Opera Comique in Paris, adds beauty and a considerable lyric ability. Lupino Lane is an agile Ko-Ko. William Danforth, standard Mikado of this century in the U. S., is excellent as usual. The acting of Tom Burke in the part of NankiPoo was seriously displeasing, but his excellent concert voice paid back the debt...
...acted historic roles in Honest Hands, Willing Hearts, A True American, Uncle Tom's Cabin. He was the friend of Roosevelt, McKinley, Taft...
...tom-toms and the strident laugh, the following are particularly effective: Ziegfeld Follies, Music Box, Rose-Marie, Lady, Be Good; The Student Prince...
...Thin Ice. The crook world has a woman's pure love showered on it again. This cinema unfolds the manner in which an artful dodger, Tom Moore by name, has his seedy character disinfected by artless Edith Roberts. To regain some lost bank loot through her, a gang of robbers plant Moore in her confidence as her long-lost brother-and romance becomes imperative. Still, it's much better than it sounds...
...house. He made him a silly "showoff" type and as such drew a perfect picture. Objectors swear that there was a deeper thrust of idealistic sincerity to the part as Ibsen wrote it. If this is your reading of the play, Mr. Gamble was exceedingly inept. Blanche Yurka, Tom Powers and a newcomer named Helen Chandler are three perform ers that fully merit the oft misused word "scintillating." Such a combination of ideas and interpretation is indeed rare in the playgoer's experience...