Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eventually it was in the maize field that peasant searchers found Baroness Irma Molnar, strangled by a heavy silken cord. Tied to one of the tassels was a crisp card, on which was written in what some thought feminine script...
Months ago the brothers ceased speaking to each other. Last week Lord Kylsant intimated frigidly that on at least one occasion Lord St. Davids had written a letter expressly to inform his brother that he would not speak to him. It was a quarrel de luxe, peer against peer, brother against brother, tycoon against tycoon-over a $10,000,000 technicality...
Featured were oldtime Hippodrome names and numbers, including: Comedian De Wolf Hopper (appearing as wizard, interlocutor, Mephistopheles, Chinese Mage); Tramp-Comedian Joe Jackson and his disintegrating bicycle; ballets (Tiller, Rasch, Lenora) ; clowns, skaters, dogs, an elephant. Many of the tunes were written by Bandman Sousa, including the blaring, brassy march " 'Tis the Eagle...
...whose wife is unfaithful to him and who finds solace in the love of a girl who has been planted in his house by a gang of crooks, is as complicated as it sounds, yet never quite silly and never vulgar. A drama of manner is intended. The dialog, written by Clare Kummer, is civilized. The settings are beautiful; the cast, bought from the legitimate theatre and including Marguerite Churchill and Kenneth MacKenna, takes pains with its material. The result is tedious because the medium is still too crude for the effect attempted. You sorely miss the old-fashioned bathos...
...inside pages made up of either boiler plate or patent insides. It is from Western Newspaper Union that most of the boiler plate and the patent insides come. Boiler plate is the trade name for stories and articles (usually of feature or semi-feature character) which are prepared, written and set up by Western Newspaper Union staff. The country editor, low on news, simply takes as much of the boiler plate material as he needs to fill up his issue. Patent insides are somewhat different, pertaining to advertising, not to editorial content. The editor who patronizes a patent insides service...