Word: cinemae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wash slum babies. Comes a police raid; and Basher Bill is shot while trying to protect the babies. As he dies, the Army lass sheds tears of joy because the blonde harlot renounces sin in favor of the Army. Mr. Jannings, ponderous though he is, is capable of better cinema...
...favorite sister, was just such a charmer as Octavia. Upon Laura's death, Margot sought consolation in London, slumming, dancing, falling often in love. In 1894 she married a widower, Herbert Henry Asquith.* Her two children are Elizabeth, who married Rumanian Prince Bibesco, and Anthony ("Puffin") who directs cinema...
...Significance. Replete with bromidic sentiments, glittering with luxuries and unlikely incident, Beauty and the Beast is extremely likely cinema material...
...Petersburg. After a prolonged inspection from dubious and dull-witted cinema censors, this interesting though not entertaining production was permitted to appear before Manhattan spectators. It delineated for their benefit the events that led up to the overthrow of the Tsarist régime. The picture was a Soviet government production and as such was intended as an advertisement of the home country rather than as the dire panorama it might otherwise have been. Its story-that of a young Russian peasant lost in the shuffle of war and disaster-excited the attention of neither the director, Vyesolod Pudovkin...
...deserve a story in return for the effort of watching a screen for two hours. Its photography is sufficiently original and its glimpses of uncomfortable armies and furious peasants are good enough to make the film fairly exciting for those whose esthetic instincts can sometimes be aroused by the cinema...