Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cock-Eyed World (Fox). Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson wrote this sequel to What Price Glory. Like most sequels written to order and for the trade, it retains the flavor but not the vitality of the first piece. Still in the Marines, Sergeant Quirt and Top-Sergeant Flagg get their women mixed up again in Russia, Brooklyn, Coney Island, the tropics. Their dialog, consisting mostly of aggressive variations of the phrases "Says You" and "Says me," is amazingly rough for cinema, outshocks What Price Glory in places. One of the men gets wounded, the other leads his troops to glory...
...Moment (First National). Billie Dove re-establishes an oldtime tenet of picturemaking, to the effect that if an actress is good-looking enough she does not need to have stories written for her or to know how to act. Elinor Glyn was hired to make up some thing about a bride who gets out of her husband's stateroom on the wedding morning, but the plot is halfhearted, as though its famed authoress were conscious that her fatuities were required simply for the sake of convention. It is a picture for people who like love on yachts and among...
When, in 1858 Abraham Lincoln challenged Stephen Douglas to the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Lincoln challenge was written in part by Charles L. Wilson, then editor of the Chicago Journal. But traditions of the past make no profits in the present and last week the Journal was bought by the Chicago Daily News, whose new plaza is the most beautiful spot in Chicago. Leader in the Chicago evening paper field, the News was founded in 1875, made great by the late Victor Fremont Lawson and the late Melville Elijah Stone, passing to Walter Ansel Strong after the death...
...Columbia University. On the Russian River, near Monte Rio, is located Bohemian Grove, where Bohemians gather each summer. On the August Saturday night nearest the full moon they give a play. The 1929 play, A Guest of Robin Hood, performed last week with Mr. Shoup in the audience, was written by Charles G. Norris with music by Robert C. Newell...
...Single Standard (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Greta Garbo usually manages to make her roles real no matter how badly written they are. This story about a fashionable woman who insists on the right to make her own mistakes is better than most of such stories. The idea out of which grow its romantic, typically cinematic situations is also the basis of a moment of drama. Greta Garbo has had a love-affair with her chauffeur who committed suicide because he was afraid of spoiling her life. Then she runs away with a painter and has a fine time sailing around...