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...pleasant talent of Edward Everett Borton and Edna May Oliver make the other mediocre movie. "The Poor Rich" adequate entertainment for the tired undergraduate. In the role of penniless aristocratic cousins with an impressive genealogical background, they make a last desperate attempt to obtain a rich bride for the here. After several complications. Albert finds that he can marry where true love guides him. Grant Mitchell, who has never equaled in the films the success he scored in the play. "Little Accident," gave a satisfactory interpretation of the deputy sheriff. Neither Leila Hyama nor Thelma Todd were allowed...
...This birth is interesting medically, but is a horrible thing when its background is considered. It makes poor advertising for Bacone, a school under Northern Baptist auspices and the only institution of collegiate rank for Indians in the country. We have 200 students, in grades 1 to 14, representing about 35 tribes from all parts...
Purporting to be a photographic record of the latest Buck expedition to gather a shipload of creatures for the St. Louis Zoo, Wild Cargo is hardly more than an adroitly staged, carefully written continuation of Bring 'Em Back Alive. As a wild animal act, its realistic background gives it its chief advantage over a circus. But it makes Buck's profession seem at once too exciting and too simple. Forty-year-old son of Texas parents who ran a covered wagon station in Texas, he started his career by catching birds and snakes with a bolas (which...
...showed figures with enlarged legs and feet-a trick she may have learned from Picasso. An impression of a Dartmouth football game made the stadium look like the portals of a theatre, the players like dancers. Chinese Theatre was a gnarled mass of acrobats with an indicated audience for background. There were two impressionistic portraits of her husband, a verdant Spring in the Country geometrically laced with telephone wires...
...White House. Such is the biography of Scamper, as related for children by President Roosevelt's only daughter. For the onetime assistant editor (Babies: Just Babies). broadcaster (Best & Co.), and magazine contributor (Liberty and Cosmopolitan), the White House and its extroverted occupants have provided a lively background for her yarn. Easy to identify are Mrs. Ball's children Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") and Curtis ("Buzzie") who show a mute and dazzled Scamper the White House foyer, the State dining room, the grand stairway, the Presidential study. No pedagog, Mrs. Dall imparts to her readers only as much of Washington...