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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City Gone Wild becomes, suddenly and unfortunately, in the midst of a great crackle of bullets and bad-words, a cinema gone mild. It ends in a crescendo of sentimentality when Thomas Meighan, the lawyer for many a badman of the underworld, reforms and, as crusader, discovers that his sweetheart's father is the biggest gun among the gunmen. Eventually, the guilty are punished and the innocent spared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 19, 1927 | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...Wild Geese, brushing across a cobwebbed sky, become for Judith Gare the symbol of a freedom she achieves when her father's avarice finally traps him into death. Spots of melodrama, blotches of theatrical emotion do less, to mar the story than to prove that sincere acting can make these defects seem trivial. Belle Bennett (whose reward for a fine performance in Stella Dallas has been a succession of mediocre roles) and Eve Southern (who wore dark hair and a fixed expression in The Gaucho) are competent to effect a more than satisfactory transposition of Martha Ostenso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 19, 1927 | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...Wild Geese", the current photoplay, is a realistic screening of the Ostenso novel, marked by the distinguished acting of Belle Bennet and Eve Sothern...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

Philosophy 14b. English Philosophy from Bacon to Hume. Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 11 o'clock Dr. Wild...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty of Arts and Sciences Lists Additional Half-Courses | 12/15/1927 | See Source »

...Hubbard, American scientist, author, and a former guard on the Harvard football team, is conducting an expedition to the bush of northern Rhodesia to study the psychology of wild animals found there. He will try to establish a scientific research station there, and is planning to take cinematography pictures and to make gramophone records of the wild animals there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hubbard Leads Trip to Rhodesia | 12/13/1927 | See Source »

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