Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because the Senate had not ratified the Lausanne Treaty, it is "unconstitutional" for an exchange of Ambassadors to take place between the U. S. and Turkish republics. At the State Department newsgatherers were roundly informed that the President of the United States does not require the authority of an act of Congress to exchange ambassadors with any country whatever...
...swirling drunk. Mr. Coward accomplishes this genteel disintegration with impudent realism. Estelle Winwood encourages his impudence with important blurts and wabbles, including the removal of her shoes. To Fay Bainter, is allotted the task of growing more dignified and lady like with every gulp. All this consumes the second act. A first tells how these impeccable and bosom friends had girlish love affairs with the same man. The man is coming back, also their husbands. In the third act they have headaches. Solemn witnesses will deem the second act a disaster; others a delight. The rest matters scarcely...
...like life-sized marionettes, with a giddy promptness that makes it seem as though all were improvised. Miss LeGallienne is paradoxically absent from the cast; Mr. Brecher, providentially, present. Storm Center is an inconsequential little farce about a married couple who buy a house in the country. The first act exhibits the difficulties of packing up and moving out. The second act exhibits the difficulties of unpacking and moving in. In the last act they sell the house. The result suggests that a few capable character actors employed two docile writers to construct a drama in which there would...
These moments belong mostly to Swedish Greta Garbo whose beauty infuses the picture with a cold white glow; John Gilbert as Vronsky is too frequently exposed to a highly approximate lens, he is too willing to act only with his teeth or his hair, to duplicate the excellence of his performance in The Big Parade. But his inadequacies are minor and partly made evident by contrast. Good handling of minor parts by George Fawcett, Brandon Hurst, Emily Fitzroy and Philippe de Lacy, intelligent photography, brilliant direction are enough for any picture that includes such a performance as that supplied...
...moves quietly along until the moment when Olga Rostova must tell her most devoted admirer in the presence of her producer and severest critic that she is, in reality, no Russian beauty but only poor little Lizzie Stokes. At this crisis, Esther Ralston also proves that she can actually act when circumstances make it imperative. The Wizard is one of those melodramatic mystery cinemas whose plots are based on the misbehavior of a subhuman creature. In this case, the creature (generally referred to as the "Thing") is conjured into existence by a wicked surgeon to accomplish the death of four...