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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Broadway Nights. A cabaret piano-pounder (Sam Hardy) teaches his pretty wife (Lois Wilson) the steps and tunes that lead to the top of the song-and-dance heap. Unfortunately, he permits rolling dice to crush his moral fibre, so she leaves him and starts to ascend alone. Abjuring all her rich admirers in the moment of glittering triumph, she returns to her husband, who promises never to do it again. The film was made in Manhattan, enriched with authentic local color from the footlight district, blessed with an intelligent scenario...
...women getting $50 a week or more were affected immediately. But those receiving pay in the higher brackets were obliged to accept cuts up to 25%. President Adolph Zukor knocked one-fourth off his own pay check, as did his chief officials. This made Paramount-Famous-Lasky's top payroll read for the year, according to reports from their Manhattan office: Adolph Zukor, president, $150,000; Jesse L. Lasky, vice president, $150,000; Sidney R. Kent, general manager, $75,000; Walter Wanger, general production manager, $75,000; E. J. Ludvigh, treasurer...
Sirs: The following are extracts from newspaper accounts of the golf classic played at the Oakmont Country Club course this week. . . . "As Armour was about to drive, a woman spectator started one of those noisy motion picture cameras buzzing at his elbow. Tommy stopped his swing at the top . . . asked the woman to observe golfing etiquette . . . but the damage had been done. . . ." "Emmet French put off his funeral until the 15th hole . . . just as he was about to approach, one of those diabolical movie cameras in the hands of some female started to reel . . . his spirit was broken. . . ." Perhaps...
Thus, for example, one Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly expects soon to collect $1,000 per week in vaudeville. No singer, no dancer, no card-trickster, no chatterer, no club-swinger is Mr. Kelly. He is a sitter. Last week he came down from a seat fastened to the top of the flagpole on the roof of the St. Francis Hotel, Newark, N. J. There he had perched continuously for twelve days and twelve hours (TIME, June...
Tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock, as the sinking sun sends its rays across the upper waters of the Thames, the Harvard University crew will leave its Red Top boathouse and paddle to the starting line with its prospects for victory over Yale brighter than those of any Harvard crew since...