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Mystery Army. At Canton the political heirs of Sun Yat-sen had cut themselves off from the Occident by imposing an anti-British boycott. Behind this screen they organized and drilled an army whose strength was universally underestimated. Suddenly, last August, at the hour of Wu's northern triumph the Cantonese struck at his war base, the Yangtze valley. The troops of their "mystery army" poured northward under Super-Tu-chun Chang Kaishek. Too late Wu rushed southward to defend Hankow and Wuchang-his twin strongholds on either bank of the Yangtze. Hankow fell at once. Wuchang has ever...
Vitaphone and The Better 'Ole (Syd Chaplin). While Al Jolson mouths "Mammy, Mammy" on the screen, the audience hears Al Jolson throat "Mammy, Mammy" out of what sounds like a loud radio. It is the Vitaphone, now well on its way to fame as purveyor of "canned" music to theatres too small to afford orchestras. After the same slightly harsh, but perfectly synchronized reproduction of Reinald Werrenrath, Elsie Janis, and The Howards, Syd Chaplin proceeds to ramble through a long string of war comics in a film, The Better 'Ole, based on Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather's characterization...
...last night for an unusual blackboard session. The coaches hoped that the team might profit from Richard Dix's new college comedy. "The Quarterback," inasmuch as the cinema was directed by Coach Yost of the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor football mentor had full charge of coaching the screen teams and filming the production to which, the players were invited...
Returning to the theme of royalty the Princess concludes: "On the stage and upon the motion picture screen we are portrayed with diamond crowns and robes of ermine.... As a matter of fact I have purchased exactly two new gowns in the last two years. Both are all Bulgarian in style, material and workmanship. . . . Princesses do not bedeck themselves .... We, like all women, deserve the best of our fatherland and of humanity as good housewives...
...athletic heroine and wins many foot races for her seat of learning. In one of these, Bebe Daniels beats her famed fiance Charlie Paddock, to the tape-being goaded on the way to victory by the encroachments of a mouse upon her sensitive calf. Another one of the screen's trivia, with an agreeable comedienne...