Word: versions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while the scenario promises to translate into film the same pic turesque fierceness. At one moment, it achieves a truly inspired version of the play's own irony; the marines march off to their first baptism of hellfire; Charmaine (Dolores Del Rio) waves good-bye to her Captain Flagg, not with the tricolor of France nor the stars and stripes of the U. S., but with the bedclothes. After this highpoint (which, to be frank seems to have been reached by accident) the scenario settles down some banal sob hokum about ' mother's boy," equally unfortunate comic...
...over 3,000 words to the gowning of my theme, when it actually appeared it was only half clothed--and radically differently, at that. Most of the scholarly detail was mutilated or entirely missing. In several places, decent color was suggestively heightened. The egotistical tiara which concluded the new version was made from foolscap, paste, and ink not of my manufacture and was substituted for the constructive suggestions which alone gave excuse and meaning to my design. Lastly, the editors of Liberty, possessed by an extreme Annanias complex, left me to shoulder the blame for their casuistry by appending...
Repertory--Arms and the Man--8.15 o'clock--Mr. Jewett assisted by that well-known playwright, G. Bernard Shaw, in a burlesque version of a famous burlesque...
...Another version of the nickname's origin : 37 men presented themselves at Madison Square Garden one night that Annie Oakley was performing, demanded free admission because they were all her brothers...
...title-page of this book must have presented difficulties. "English Version" of course signifies "translation"--Wendell's translation of a ninth-century narrative of Eginhard "with the constant aid of Teulet's French version." The word "Translation" in the title does not even signify the wafting of two saints from earth to heaven, but the theft of their bones from the Roman tomb in which they were interred, their stealthy removal from the Holy City, and the adventures of the pious thieves in their conveying of these relics to a church not far from the court of Charlemagne...