Word: warners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Time was when the melodrama factories worked double shift turning out absorbing trash to the public taste. Of late years, the melodrama market has slumped and the mental machineries turned to other products. Max Marcin caught the operators napping with a sound old timer, perfectly played by H. B. Warner and geared so high that even the wicked old critics felt thrills crawling busily about them...
...occasionally effective melodramatic structure wherein a man of society, joining the Federal Prohibition forces because of the death of his sister, dons a disguise that would actually mislead the sharp-witted breed, the bootlegger, and succeeds in laying low Demon Rum. Blanche Sweet, Bessie Love and Warner Baxter stand out in this film...
...Warner brought back with him many photographs and stone rubbings of the Chinese characters of the cave, but did not rob it of any of its contents. He said...
With him Mr. Warner brought back a few places of ancient Chinese art as well as some stone rubbings and many photographs. All of these must be examined by various departments of Harvard University before their exact significance can be understood...
...This is an example", Mr. Warner said; "of why great universities must undertake this work of exploring the past. Much of the material will have to be passed around several different departments of the University, all of which are within a stone's throw of the art museum...