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Olympia and Uptown-"The Man I Killed" Lubitsch; impressionism...
...still dock in Brooklyn. Counsel for the line submitted a memorandum written in 1926 to his superiors: "Mr. Hickin telephoned and I could not regard either his words or manner of speaking as satisfactory. He said that ... he had been to the commissioner's office and also 'uptown' [14th Street] twice. Mr. Hickin insisted he had been told 'uptown' that 'everything was O. K.' " By "uptown" and "14th Street" the N. G. L. lawyer said he meant Tammany Hall, whose null was then on 14th Street between Third Avenue and Irving Place...
...view either was the prize exhibit, a monumental bust of the Chompeen by Polygnotos Vagis entitled "Concentrated Power." Nobody had money enough to move it uptown from 12th Street...
...Founded in 1848, the church bought property in 1849 which was regarded as too far uptown. But Society moved northward. Theatres were built nearby. Mrs. John Jacob Astor became a communicant of the Church of the Transfiguration, gave a fine pair of gas-brackets. Additions were built on the low. brownstone building; its rambling appearance earned it the name of the Church of the Holy Cucumber Vine...
Olympia and Uptown--"Bad Girl", with Sally Eilers and James Dunn...