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...best U. S. woman's orchestra owes its existence to Lillian Poenisch, a fiery little spinster who plays the clarinet; Adeline Schmidt, a white-haired flutist; and Lois Bichl, a cellist noted for her great good-nature. These three wanted to play in an orchestra but knew they stood little chance of being admitted to an established symphony organization. To start a band of their own they collected $1,000 from Samuel Insull, an equal amount from the late Julius Rosenwald, persuaded Richard Czerwonky of Bush Conservatory to be their first conductor...
...Lance Corporal Mortimer make immodest advances and never was he drunk. The story told by Mrs. Alice Series, the first woman Mortimer bunted, made police think her slightly cracked. They could no longer doubt it, however, when the same story was successively told by Miss Nellie Boyes, Miss Lillian Rose Harding and Miss Lillian Harrie, all eminently respectable and severely bruised. "I asked him why he hit me-unable to believe my senses," testified Mrs. Series. "He replied: 'Why shouldn't I?' Then he scrambled down to the ditch in which I sat and punched me again...
...movies a college man, graduate of the Trinity Jesters, when motion picture performance were a roug unschooled let. His first picture was "War Brides." Under the acgis of David W. Gritlith, outmoded now, Barthelmess made long longstand outside of the theatres to see his Chinamth Broken Blossoms, with Lillian Gish, and his movie lad in Tellable David. In 1917 his Parent Leader had a pathos no story of a boxer has since...
...like The Three Musketeers (see above), is an effort to redistill for the sophisticated audiences of modern talking pictures the elixirs which their predecessors found so stimulating many years ago. The 1920 production of Lottie Blair Parker's classic grossed $2,000,000 and the scene in which Lillian Gish floundered toward a happy ending through the ice-cakes probably drew as many tears as anything else David Wark Griffith ever directed...
...Bishop Misbehaves (MetroGoldwyn-Mayer). If the Bishop of Broadminster had not been a reader of mystery stories he would never have guessed, on entering the deserted inn, that a robbery had just taken place there. He would not have been able to find Reginald Owen, Lillian Bond, and Dudley Digges tied in a closet and the stolen jewels in a pewter pot from which he removed them, leaving his visiting card...