Word: acts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Condemned (Goldwyn). There is hardly a scene in this that is not well photographed and Ronald Coleman and Ann Harding act as well as you would expect. Unfortunately, the charm that the director has taken such pains to put into Condemned is wasted because it is inappropriate. Proper picturization of the grim penal colony on Devil's Island* calls for another quality than charm. This bleak little story about a criminal who fell in love with the abused wife of the prison warden could have been made credible only by thoughtful, undecorative realism. Best shot: Louis Wolheim, the toughest...
After showing off his talkie-phone, Mr. Grace demonstrated the newly Bell-discovered physiological fact that the human ear drum and surrounding tissues act in the same manner as the condenser plate of a radio receiver. He stuck one of his fingers into an ear of one of his audience, modulated a high frequency current by speaking into a transmitter, let the modulated current pass through his body to his finger tip to the man's ear. The man "heard" Mr. Grace's words. The man felt as though he were thinking Mr. Grace's phrases...
...gyroscopic airplane stabilizer consists of two wheels rotating, one vertically, the other horizontally. A wind-driven electric motor gives them energy. If the airplane tilts up, down or sideways, it in effect moves around the stabilizer. When it does so, it makes electrical contacts which act through electromagnets to return the machine to level keel and original direction, by mechanically activating the ailerons, rudder and elevator, all together or separately...
...objects of the bank, as stated in the first statute are: 'To promote the cooperation of central banks, to provide additional facilities for international financial operations, and to act as trustee or agent in regard to international financial settlements...
Probably Bessie Love, Marie Dressler, and Polly Moran carry off the honors over the other ladies of the cast, because they have more opportunity to be funny than the rest have to act. Joan Crawford, Anita Page, and Marion Davies are all acceptable in less distinctive parts. Laurel and Hardy present a little highgrade slapstick, and Buster Keaton's burlesque of the exquisite jewel dance that precedes him, outdoes them...