Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that before long Leatrice Joy will fall in love with one of her dupes even keep her from being as boring as her stolid acting usually makes her. Changing A Most Immoral Lady into a picture has slowed its tempo and made even more insubstantial its faint flourishes of wit. As though recognizing this the producers have dressed it up with some expensive sets and a little indifferent singing. Silliest shot: rich codger telling Miss Joy why he admires...
Jenny. So long as Jane Cowl appears delightfully arch, points her wit with her own sly, luscious laughter and plays the scales with her throaty voice, she will receive plenty of homage. But many of her admirers who see her in Jenny will wonder why so subtle and personable an actress permits herself to appear in such a stale, superficial play. Co-Playwrights Margaret Ayer Barnes and Edward Sheldon have pictured John R. Weatherby, a corporation lawyer who has pampered his family until they are all incorrigible. His wife's senile intimacies with a Russian prince and a willowy...
...murdered. Various of the 13 glamorous guests had ample motive for the crime. King had injured practically all of them, with his piratical lust for women and money. Authoress Hart, who wrote The Bellamy Trial, famed smash hit, has inlaid her mystery with a filigree of wit and romance, confined the action to one night, eliminated detectives. The result is incredibly novel, exciting...
...erratic friend of Charles Curtis of Kansas is William Allen White of Kansas. In his voluminous public writings, Mr. White once called Mr. Curtis "a nit-wit." But during the 1928 campaign he more or less retracted that and helped the Hoover-Curtis ticket by throwing mud at Alfred Emanuel Smith...
Then hovering over the steel works of the enemy he dropped his major charges, one after another: "The United States Steel Company's earnings for the second quarter of 1929 were the highest in its history, to wit, $71,995,561. That amounts to $6.68 a share on 7,116.235 common shares outstanding on June 30, 1929, and $5.91 a share on 8,030,334 shares of recent issue...