Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carrying candles protected by glass chimneys, the worshipers file silently from the hotel along the rocky pathway to the little church, whose bell tolls solemnly above the rumble of the surf. At service's end the worshipers take up their candles and walk out, the last to leave shutting the door upon the darkened church. Silently all file back to the hotel...
...experimental sound-film, which most Hollywood companies had already turned down. On Aug. 6. 1926, Warner's Manhattan theater screened Don Juan (John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Myrna Loy) with a fully synchronized musical background. On the same bill were eight sound shorts. Historians agree that the bell tolled that evening for silent pictures...
...Movies-with-sound, using a complex mixture of inventions by Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas A. Edison, Lee de Forest and others, are now some 57 years...
...BELL TIMSON (373 pp.)-Marguerite Steen-Doubleday...
DANIEL WAFENA BELL, 55, Illinois-born. Until he resigned last January to join a Washington (D.C.) bank as president, he had been a Government employe for 34 years, rising from a clerkship to be Under Secretary of the Treasury. Daniel Bell helped the New Deal by keeping its books. He neither embraced nor repudiated New Deal measures for controls over business. An impartial appraisal of his philosophy: the complete impartiality of a highly competent public servant...