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...second love comes into the meddling clubman's life, but the girl (Martha Sleeper), a luncheon cashier, lists not to the mating song of the clubman when she learns he has been balked by another. Warner Baxter, able actor, is unable to escape the boundaries of a bad script...
...stars, their mamas (chaperones?) and parasitic Spanish nobles, of shrewd Jewish producers and bland rewrite men. Imperia Starling snatches Ambrose Deacon to her Italio-Spanish-Tudor-Romanesque villa, gives him a small dinner party for 60 or 80, makes passionate love to him, orders him to write her a script. He escapes to New Mexico. She pursues with a sheriff. In self-defense he signs a rival producer's contract, and marries a sub-star from Kansas City, to the luxurious jingle of magnificent jewels, gilt-edged limousines, plum-colored footmen, in short−Hollywood. The author handles...
...President of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, is doing practically this, and his people, bewildered but willing, are trying to obey. President Kemal has decided that Turkish shall no longer be written in the delicate intricacies of Arabic script. Instead, he wishes Turks to write Turkish in Latin characters...
...settled satisfactorily when the promoters of the film admitted their fault and agreed to make a correction. It was a film called Deliverance, a moral romance meant to advertise among Y. M. C. A. men the stirring statistics of Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist and Dry propagandist. The script had called for a picture of Governor Smith signing a bill. The producer had clipped a newsreel "shot" of Governor Smith signing a tax-reduction bill and then implied by subtitles that the bill shown was the repealer to New York's Prohibition enforcement...
...sentence with 118 words isn't so unusual-try counting one sentence in the preceding script...