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...into reasonably inoffensive entertainment, unmarred by the ineptitudes which can make bad plays atrocities. There is nothing distinguished about This Modem Age but, like a medium-priced sedan, it runs rapidly and smoothly along, an inconspicuous mechanical marvel which disgraces no one and will probably make a profit. Joan Crawford's new haircut, which gives the effect of a pale overgrown hedge straggling down the back of her neck, is not as unbecoming as it sounds. Good shots: Joan Crawford and Neil Hamilton (the fiance) dislodging a china vase and waiting for it to crash while it falls...
This Modern Age (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In this picture Joan Crawford, now completely a blonde, has the role of a tipsy virgin, a wholesome inebriate who. although often disorderly in an innocent way herself, is appalled when she learns that her mother, a divorcee whom she is visiting in Paris, is being kept by a wealthy Frenchman. When her fiance tells her about it she calls him a liar, neglects to apologize when she learns it is true. Before long a horrid scene occurs. Disgusted at her mother's apparently inveterate immorality, the daughter takes up with a rounder...
Selected to decorate the $1,000,000 certificate was a portrait of William Harris Crawford who served from 1816 to 1825 as Secretary of the Treasury. Born in Virginia in 1772, Crawford moved to Georgia, built a plantation home, "Woodlawn," at Lexington. In 1802 he killed Peter Van Allen in a duel. Four years later in an other duel his left wrist was shattered. The duel was fought at ten paces. His opponent had urged that the combatants be permitted to advance at will up to a distance of five paces and that they continue to exchange shots "until...
...election he was President Monroe's candidate for the White House. Against him in the Democratic party were arrayed John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson. Crawford men insisted that a Congressional caucus, as heretofore, should make the Presidential nomination. All others flayed the caucus as undemocratic, refused to participate. In the election Crawford was a poor third and the choice was thrown into the House of Representatives where Adams was elected with 13 States voting for him, Jackson getting seven, Crawford four. Historically the defeat of Crawford marked the end of "King Caucus," the beginning of a slow...
When Uncle Crawford tried to take his niece away Preacher Lowe tried to prevent him. Their argument impressed Brother Semple, brought him a real conviction of sin. He ran away into the darkness, wrestled with himself, decided to turn loose from glory-shouters. But conscience drove him back to confront Preacher Lowe and announce his defection. While Lowe forgivingly prayed for him Semple went away...