Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Close Harmony (Paramount). John V. A. Weaver wrote most of the dialog and Elsie Janis the story of this picture. Designed with no higher aim than to give Buddy (Charles) Rogers a chance to play the saxophone, it turned out better than you would expect. Nancy Carroll splits up a vaudeville team by flirting with each member in turn so that Rogers can get their booking. Best shot: vaudeville love in the back seat...
Irritated, General Manager George B. Longan of the Star in turn issued a statement. In part, he said: "The Star is not concerned over Mr. Hearst's views. . . . What we objected to was the reprinting of an article that gave the appearance of being an editorial written for the Star by Mr. Hearst. Also on account of the way in which it was used it indicated that the Star had changed its attitude on law enforcement...
Fine plays, like all fine art, are produced only with care and deliberation-expensive commodities. Able playwrights will not entrust their plays to financially insecure managers. But financially secure managers acquire fine plays, which in turn attract fine actors, directors...
...Shields has a hard task ahead of him. He is far from the sea, but the waves dash overhead, and they carry the voices of Columbia professors and Helen Kane. A wave of the hand may stop the sea, but it will take a turn of the dial to keep sin outside Des Moines...
...last year will be long remembered. His experience of war made him an eloquent advocate of peace. His own self-sacrifice, with his high patriotism, pointed his appeal for our national participation in the solution of world problems. On the following morning, he was too ill to take his turn at the Chapel. He was to have preached here again on the 29th of May, 1929, so that the service just mentioned was the last at which his voice was heard...