Word: smalltown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SmallTown Lawyer's Wife...
...well are Homer Guck's name and potency known. When Mr. Hearst's general manager. Col. William Franklin Knox, was running the Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) News, some 17 years ago, Homer Guck was running two smalltown newspapers nearby, the Houghton Mining Gazette, the Calumet News. The young editors were friends, newstraders. When their ways parted, Col. Knox went to Mr. Hearst's chainpapers, Publisher Guck to Detroit to learn insurance (Detroit Life) and banking (Union Trust Co.), to make a reputation,as a city-booster...
...Victorian love lyric while stripping herself of illusion's oldtime harness−bustle, gussets, padded bosom. Congratulations pokes a rather feeble finger at country politics. Morgan Wallace (the name of both playwright and hero) is a stock company entrepreneur and leading man who, broke, is persuaded by a smalltown boss in Missouri to run as dummy candidate for Mayor. So potent has been his appeal over the footlights that he gets all the women's vote, is elected. Backstage scenes of the type resorted to here are no longer convulsive for their own sake. Nor does pleasant hokum...
Carnival. The salesmen's smoker was an orgy. The smalltown boys had plenty of liquor on their breaths, carnival girls on their laps. A cooch dancer came out and began her undulations. Through her Oriental veil, Bobbie Spencer recognized Helen, the blonde witch whom he loved and had persuaded that very afternoon to quit the show business. Maddened, sickish, he tried to drag her away. Showman Blackie intervened. When Bobbie lunged at him, Blackie drew a gun and fired...
...cast is bad and her director no genius'. But somehow, as- though to prove to the world which has called her "America's Sweetheart" that her talent does not share the tawdriness of the phrase, she turns her difficulties to assets, brings vividly to life the southern smalltown coquette who liked one fellow too well to suit her father. Best shot of any talking picture to date - Mary Pickford telling a lawyer what she thinks of her father after he has shot and fatally wounded her lover. In 1897, Mrs. John Charles Smith, a widow, ran a candy...