Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wall Street (Columbia). Spectators who wonder whether the timeliness of this film's background?a stockmarket panic?is the result of extraordinary financial foresight or extraordinary speed in production should be informed that it is simply luck. In plot and characters Wall Street is less lucky. It presents the fundamentally interesting but familiar and clumsily treated situation of an iron-sinewed, low-born trader who is in love with a beautiful, cultured woman. Ralph Ince and Aileen Pringle do as well as they can in these parts. Silliest shot: a ruined speculator committing suicide by jumping through an office window...
Enthusiastic dance-addicts crowded Symphony Hall 'Tuesday evening, to see the first Boston appearance of Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi, (pronounced, incidentally, Yorghi). Small wonder at the enthusiasm, because this German couple came heralded with more superlatives than usual,--the leading exponents of the Modern Dance, the world's greatest dancers...
...Island Wife of Bath. Early in the evening she observes: "There is a spirit of unrest in the air, and one feels the breath of Eros blowing in from the garden." Later she delivers a homily on the piquancy of Victorian underwear. She also says: "I often sit and wonder what one could do nowadays to be declasse...
Attendance in the third week of the wonder totalled well above a million. The crowds included Chinese, Jews, Irish, Gypsies, Southerners, Protestants, Boxer Jack Sharkey, Negro Boxer Sam Langford. So overrun was the cemetery that other graves were sadly desecrated, other funerals made impossible. Authorities had limited miracle-seeking hours between 7 a. m. and 5 p. m., then from...
Rabelais' jocose giant Pantagruel, under whose tongue a whole army once hid, might find the 500-ft. U. S. plane now being designed no wonder. But certainly the Arabian roc, which carried off elephants for its nestlings as an eagle rapes a mouse, would shy from the monstrous thing U. S. engineers propose to build for $5,000,000. Who the financiers are, who the builders, was kept secret. That it was a bona fide project Harry Westcott of Westcott & Mapes, Inc., New Haven and Manhattan engineering firm, testified immediately after Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut had predicted...