Word: prado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flashing, their caps bobbing, ten millionaires watched their maneuvers with an intimate and peculiar interest. They were the owners- all rich then, but nine of them due to be poorer in a few minutes. There were W. R. Coe, Standard oil mines; Colonel Bradley, who once owned the Del Prado hotel in Chicago and whose racing stable, the Idle Hour Farm, has derived many benefits from a clothing store he formerly conducted on Madison Street, near Clark; J. E. Griffith, owner of Canter and of some profitable phosphate beds; W. J. Salmon, shrewd Manhattan real estate operator; William Ziegler...
Needless to say there is no pretense to seriousness. Mr. Dix, as Yale quarterback Bill Dexter, runs riot in the Bowl, then in the exclusive (sic) Prado Night Club, gets jailed, escapes, and elopes to avoid capture. That in brief is the plot, but it is the small bits of acting and the rather subtle humor that makes this movie worthwhile and really entertaining...
...refereeing by Director Gregory La Cava allows Slagle, in a Pathe News exerpt, to double for Dix, and to run 80 yards for Yale against Harvard. If humor depends upon incongruity, this is a wow. A post-game celebration results in the wrecking of the Club Prado in accordance with the best Mack Sennett traditions. Quarterback Dexter and his backfield mates conquer the waiter's eleven, but are penalized 30 days, for unnecessary roughness by the superior blue jacket reserves. An accidental escape from jail follows, a hasty wedding, so that Dexter's stay in foreign waters...
...mounted upon a very fat pony-that the obese quadruped would appear speedy as a blooded stallion if he were poised on his hind-legs against a sky of troubled fire and blown grey cloud. (The result of Velazquez's cogitation, Prince Baltasar Carlos, hangs in the Prado Gallery in Madrid...
...will carry out the desires of the late Pope Benedict XV in presenting to the Catholic University of Washington, D. C., a picture of the Immaculate Conception, executed in mosaic at the Vatican. For model he has chosen Murillo's The Purest Fair One, which hangs in the Prado, Madrid...