Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dolly Gray" and U. S. Volunteers sweated in blue flannel shirts and tubular blanket rolls, the name of the Dutch island of Curaçao appeared in bold headlines. One hot morning, the U. S. Consul at Curaçao, gazing casually from his bedroom window found the normally peaceful harbor black with steel-snouted, round-turreted warships...
...Chang and Grass. Getting these scenes took a year and a half and was worth it. Hollywood craftsmen spliced around them a silly but exciting story about an Englishman whose best friends hand him white feathers when they find out he is scared of going to war against the blacks. When his sweetheart hands him the fourth white feather, he starts a series of heroic deeds which result in preserving his three friends in turn and possibly also the British Empire. The last reel fades out as he is about to hand the fourth feather back to Fay Wray. Best...
...Goldwyn experience. Said Mr. Ziegfeld: "I am going to do for the screen what I have done for the stage." Of the stage he said: "There is too much dirt and nakedness in revues nowadays, and the public is about fed up on them. . . . The sketches now used as black-outs? are the sort that in pre-Prohibition days found their origin in barrooms, and I consider it a disgrace to be associated with a revue producer at the present time. Unless the Follies can be distinguished from the current conception of the revue, I shall abandon them...
Rockwell Kent, famed black and white artist, boarded a 33-ft. sailing cutter at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, last week. He was Greenland-bound, accompanied by Lucian Gary Jr., the writer's son, and Arthur S. Allen Jr., son of the cutter's owner...
...Black-out: a skit ending with a sudden extinguishing of all lights on the stage...