"America's Sweetheart, Mary Pickford, stars as Annie, a tough girl from the bad part of town who calls on her gang of fellow hoodrats to help find out who shot her policeman father. Annie's brother Tim (Gordon Griffith) suspects it was her boyfriend (William Haines), so now she must endeavor to find the real killer to prove his innocence. Another gem from one of the silver screen's most popular stars of all time!"
Decorated Book Papers(4th Edition) Being an Account of Their Designs and Fashions (Houghton Library Publications) by Rosamond B. Loring, Hope Mayo Hardcover, 215 Pages, Published 2008 by Houghton Library Of The Harvard College Library ISBN-13: 978-0-9765472-6-6, ISBN: 0-9765472-6-0
Marbled and Paste Papers Rosamond Loring's Recipe Book (Houghton Library Publications) by Rosamond B. Loring, Hope Mayo, Sidney E. Berger Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2007 by Houghton Library Of The Harvard College Library Facsimile ISBN-13: 978-0-9765472-5-9, ISBN: 0-9765472-5-2
"Wings, the first movie to win an Academy Award for Best Picture and the only silent film to win, is still remarkably enjoyable to watch. The story is a fairly conventional one--two flyboys, both in love with the same girl, go off to fight World War I, and male bonding and heartbreak ensue. It's a perfectly serviceable plot, except for the key logical flaw that both young men have inexplicably fallen in love with the boring girl down the ..."
"In My Best Girl, Mary Pickford demonstrates the winsome charm that won her the title "America's Sweetheart." She plays Maggie Johnson, a sensible stockroom girl at Merrill's, a five-and-ten-cent store. This is the heyday of the big five-and-dimes and Robert Merrill (Hobart Bosworth), the store's wealthy owner, is clearly a stand-in for F.W. Woolworth. The opening shot of Maggie displays Pickford's prodigious gift for physical comedy. Sh ..."
"Lon Chaney delivers a moving performance as the stooped Chinese laundryman Yen Sin, who barely survived a raging storm that had spit him ashore in the East Coast fishing town of Urkey. Under extraordinary makeup and painstaking physical contortions, Chaney overcomes the paternalistic clichés of the script to create a vivid character whose hard, back-breaking life is suggested in every pained movement of his gnarled hands and stiff, shuf ..."
"Lon Chaney delivers a moving performance as the stooped Chinese laundryman Yen Sin, who barely survived a raging storm that had spit him ashore in the East Coast fishing town of Urkey. Under extraordinary makeup and painstaking physical contortions, Chaney overcomes the paternalistic clichés of the script to create a vivid character whose hard, back-breaking life is suggested in every pained movement of his gnarled hands and stiff, shuf ..."
"In My Best Girl, Mary Pickford demonstrates the winsome charm that won her the title "America's Sweetheart." She plays Maggie Johnson, a sensible stockroom girl at Merrill's, a five-and-ten-cent store. This is the heyday of the big five-and-dimes and Robert Merrill (Hobart Bosworth), the store's wealthy owner, is clearly a stand-in for F.W. Woolworth. The opening shot of Maggie displays Pickford's prodigious gift for physical comedy. Sh ..."