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Body and Soul (Fox). This picture is noteworthy only because it was chosen as the vehicle for the U. S. cinema debut of Elissa Landi, whose talents are emphasized by the film's other shortcomings. Actress Landi has the flimsy role of a heroine who, having passed the night with an aviator on leave, has to express her certainty that she has given him a "moment of heaven." The aviator is Charles Farrell who portrays drunkenness by waggling his head from side to side. The lady, nicknamed Pom-Pom, has been the wife of one of his friends...
...production of Greater Love and its almost simultaneous collapse might have passed without much comment except for the appearance of Comedienne Mary Hay as the brave little sister. She not only made her debut into "the more serious drama" with the play, but, using the name of Bruce Spaulding, helped write...
Intercollegiate boxing will make its debut at Harvard tonight when Harvard's first University team meets that of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the New Indoor Athletic Building at 7.30 o'clock. The team has had one meet so far, three weeks ago, when it lost to Dartmouth by one bout...
...bottomless valley of oblivion which lies beyond. Realizing that the paths of political glory lead only to the grave, Premier Benito Mussolini has undertaken the task of insuring his immortality in the less transitory world of letters. The world's most famous virtuoso in political showmanship will make his debut as a playwright with and epic to be produced at the Hungarian National Theater...
...pure and springlike quality of her voice established her as Patti's greatest successor. It lasted her well through middle age because she used it so intelligently, won her triumphs for 40 years. Melba's life was as glamorous as the prima donna of fiction. She made her American debut at the Metropolitan in 1893 five days after famed Emma Calve made hers. Her friends included Gounod, with whom she studied Marguerite, Verdi when he was old and gnarled, Sarah Bernhardt who gave her points in acting and taught her makeup, Oscar Wilde who after his disgrace begged money...