Word: dreyer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telling a story in pictures, until you see this film in which the trial and death of Joan of Arc are told, in silence, by the expression of faces not disfigured by make-up and photographed from all angles, mostly in closeup. Director Carl Theodore Dreyer, a Dane, is not concerned with history, except that he uses accurately and intelligently such evidence as the 15th Century has left him about the girl who saved her country from its enemies, and was later tortured to death by the Church. Somehow Dreyer found a woman, Mile. Falconetti, whose face was what...
Together, Dreyer and Falconetti have made the girl whom Mark Twain saw as through the eyes of an amiable, schoolgirlish companion, and whom Bernard Shaw created as a healthy, quick-witted English girl of the fox-hunting type, a person whom the spectator recognizes as someone revealed for the first time, yet who has always been known to everybody. She is answering her judges at a moment when she is forced to renounce either her life or her faith...
...Back in Your Own Back Yard"-Billy Rose and Dane Dreyer...
...crash, said that the S-51 had the right of way on that September night, that the City of Rome had not obeyed navigation laws. Last week, the Boston Board of Steamship Inspectors suspended for nine months the licenses of Captain John Diehl and Third Mate Timothy L. Dreyer of the City of Rome; blamed both the freighter and the submarine...
Some months ago (TIME, June 25), newspapers reported in large headlines the 'discovery of a new vaccine for tuberculosis by Georges Dreyer of Oxford University. The distinctive feature of this vaccine was the claim that it could be made specific through its attack on certain ingredients contained within the capsule of the tubercle organism, which is of a waxy character. At the time of the original announcement, scientific authorities in the U. S. issued a word of caution because so many vaccines against tuberculosis had previously resulted in failure. Late reports from sanatoriums and hospitals in which various types...