Word: closeups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little table for six. Others at that table in the order of their importance were the Swedish ambassador, Mr. Ochs, of the New York Times; Mr. Reid, who owns the New York Tribune, and this writer. This is a closeup, taken at a distance of about two feet...
...accompanying photograph of her as Nun Megildis in The Miracle. They were further supplied with a portrait of her in her opera cloak and pearls; with a view of the red lacquer ballroom of the Palmer House, crowded with fashionable guests, where she made her début; with a "closeup" of a boudoir table which might have been hers, displaying more pearls and two jars of Pond's cold and vanishing creams...
...Akins remains the broad-jumping playwright. She leaps off with a great rush, then loses momentum. Elsie Ferguson recovers in the courtesan role the warm, stirring undercurrent of her earlier acting. Throwing off the cataleptic spell of the cinema, she no longer seems to be waiting for a closeup. Except for a farewell scene, Sidney Blackmer has the cold, damp passion of a clay statue. He seems hardly to have the resolution to kill himself-as he threatens to do at regular intervals but never does. A moonflower is a bloom that lives only between dusk and dawn. In this...
Wild Oranges. This screen version of Joseph Hergesheimer's novel carries out with simple but concrete symbolism the very quality of wild oranges-bitter sweet to the first taste, growing more zestful with each bite, or closeup. Its story is that of a man embittered at fate by the sudden loss of his young bride, who hesitates to take the fruit of Eden offered to him in the person of a lonely girl of the Georgia coast, prisoner alike of fear and a maniacal murderer. The man who fears life's traps finally clutches at the fruit, rescuing...
...South Sea island. And here, dear reader, we will leave them. You may have three guesses as to a) whether he was really guilty of stealing the money, b) who won when he battled with the ugly old beachcomber for his wife and c) what happened in the final closeup...