Word: cinemae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Many subscribers like myself must have welcomed the return of the Cinema column after its long absence, liking its frank and sane appreciations. Most of us, I think, recognize the piffle that still permeates many films, and we like to be told in advance where it may be found-or avoided. Do not, TIME, cease to tell the truth in art as your reviewer sees it, until you cease to tell the truth in news...
...called for a breakfast beginning with Spanish melon. Governor John W. Martin of Florida was at the Jacksonville station, (with Mayor John T. Alsop and many a big fruitgrower. The President shook their hands, looked around, re-entrained for Washington. The Coolidge Special's cinema that evening was Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...Minister assumed office, last week, Chancellor Wilhelm Marx cleared up an old, so-called scandal involving the Defense Ministry by bluntly stating that in 1926 it sank large secret funds in defending the cinema industries of the Reich from U. S. competition. Although this involved a very wide interpretation of the Defense Ministry's duties, Chancellor Marx challenged critics to deny that German cinema firms were being rapidly swamped by U. S. competition at the time when they were assisted by the secret funds...
...plot of the picture goes back to what he remembers, sitting in the cinema dressing room over a makeup table. He remembers himself as General Dolgorucki, a gaudy young officer, commander-in-chief of the Tsar's army. Two revolutionists come to this young officer to have their passports examined; a beautiful actress and her friend, a young theatre manager. The Tsar's cousin sends the man to prison for an impertinence and asks the girl to have dinner with...
Shaking his head over this recollection, General Dolgorucki sees his face in the mirror over the dressing-room table. The cinema director, whom he recognizes as the revolutionist he sent to prison so long ago, gives him a costume like the one he wore when he was the cousin of a living Tsar. Then the director sends the sad actor, once more a gaudy captain, into a mock battle. Leading Hollywood soldiers across a fabricated battlefield, the Russian nobleman forgets pretense. After relieving for a moment a similar scene in his remembrance, General Dolgorucki dies, not in pretense...