Word: trails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoyment for them. . . . Don't bother to look for my name on your list of subscribers as it isn't there, for I am continually on the move and find it much easier to pick one up somewhere each week, than to bother trying to have one trail me, but I haven't missed reading one in ages, and don't intend...
London After Midnight gives Lon Chaney another opportunity to make his face even more threatening and unpleasant than usual. He does this because he is a highly efficient Scotland Yard detective on the trail of grave-walking, werewolfish murderers who haunt a house near London. The rest must remain a mystery; as such, it is well worth squirming about...
...Recently the Mayor of the greatest city in America visited Europe and was honorably received on his tour everywhere by all except the diplomatic representatives of his own country. Our Ambassador to France . . . was represented by one Sheldon Whitehouse, who promptly put detectives on his [the Mayor's] trail to try and get something on this Mayor who was a member of Tammany Hall, a political body not in sympathy with the party in power here in our own America...
Both the play and the presentation may be criticized. Nevertheless the spirit of the Dramatic Club and its genuine effort to produce something memorable will bear no caviling. "The Chisholm Trail" was satisfying if only because of its sincerity; it was played as it was written--quickly, soberly, in short, effectively...
...Passos, Lawson, type, whether as burlesque, original or modernization. Where, the question has been propounded, are new examples of the old methods? Where is the college parallel to George Kelly, to Maxwell Anderson? It is not, one may say quite assuredly, to be found in "The Chisholm Trail", but it does lie a great deal nearer it than, say, "The Orange Comedy...