Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In a draughty Moscow public dining hall a group of 99 U. S. tourists licked up grey beluga caviar last week, wryly gulped throat-scorching vodka. A band struck up "The Star-Spangled Banner." The tourists, clearing their throats, joined in the chorus. "It was the first time," opined the...
Rather than demote General Manager Annenberg, a new title of Business Manager was created for the man now called in to build up Liberty's advertising. And the man is an oldtime Liberty counsellor, the best in the business, grey-haired James O'Shaughnessy, longtime Executive Secretary of...
Pleasure Crazed (Fox). This finely made but curiously colorless picture is an example of the talkie producers' fumbling to find a middle ground between stage and cinema. It attempts no broad effects, no cardinal emotions. Its plot, involving a novelist whose wife is unfaithful to him and who finds...
Dangerous Curves (Paramount). It would not be fair to apply the term stale to this story about a circus performer who loses his skill when his female partner breaks up the team. Long ago it passed from being simply stale to an honorable status as one of the great stencils...
Piccadilly (British). People who liked The Old Wives' Tale may be startled at the idea of Arnold Bennett writing a film for Gilda Gray. And people who liked the Follies of 1922 may think it odd that Shimmy-Dancer Gray would appear in a story by Litterateur Bennett. Yet...