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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third, McGrath tripled, crossing the plate a moment later when the Harvard captain poled one of Marston's fast balls to the Freshman diamond for a home run. A minute later Prior scored the last of the Crimson runs on a two base outfield error and a wild pitch. HARVARD a.b. r. h. p.o. a. e. Bassett. e.f. 4 1 1 1 1 0 Nugent 2b. 4 0 0 0 4 0 McGrath, s.s. 4 1 3 2 0 0 Donaghy, 3b. 4 2 2 4 6 0 Prior, 1b. 3 1 1 8 0 0 Whitney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD BUNCHES HITS TO BEAT BATES | 4/24/1929 | See Source »

Seated in their dressing room after an appearance on the stage with their latest picture, "Simba," Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson related to a CRIMSON reporter a few nights ago fascinating account of their numerous journeys into wild lands to take moving pictures of animals in their native haunts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Martin Johnsons Describe Perils of Filming Elephants in African Jungles--"But Lions are Easy," is Their Verdict | 4/24/1929 | See Source »

Best current pictures listed (A) according to. merit (B) according to the money they made last week: (A) The Passion of Joan of Arc-Silent French version of history's greatest courtroom scene. The Divine Lady-Love among the frigates. The Spieler-Original story of carnival life. Wild Orchids- Greta Garbo in a bedroom for three. Strong Boy-Promotions of a baggage-smasher. (B) The Wild Party ($42,300, Buffalo, Buffalo) ; Wolf. Song ($34,000, Paramount, Los Angeles); Noah's Ark ($20,000, Aldine, Philadelphia); Weary River ($7,900, Des Moines, Des Moines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citations | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Wild Orchids (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The increasing sophistication of the picture business is well demonstrated by this story of a foreign prince, a U. S. millionaire, a lady, and a tiger, which has been told before but never so effectively. In the 1914 manner of the cinema, it was a story of marital infidelity as crude and tawdry as its papier-mâché settings. As done in the 1919 epoch, it was a heavy-footed charade, overburdened with its setting. Now, a vehicle for Greta Garbo's disturbing shadow, it moves lightly, even wittily, and the lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Wild Party (Paramount). In one of those colleges where all the girls are good-looking, talk musical comedy English, make love instead of study, and wear clothes that must have cost their parents a pretty penny, Clara Bow falls in love with a professor. Warner Fabian wrote the plot and John V. A. Weaver the drawling dialog of a story that has no connection with the verses by the same title published last year by Joseph Moncure Marsh. The sound-device, recording the Bow voice for the first time, sometimes lags behind, sometimes careers ahead of episodes which arraign young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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