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...last Admirals' conference in British Eastern waters was 13 years ago. Host last week in Singapore harbor aboard his flagship cruiser Kent was a rare and racy Tipperary-blooded quarter decker, Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer. He was Flag Captain in the Battle of Jutland to Admiral Jellicoe of the Grand Fleet, today commands the China Station...
...Marie Falconetti as St. Joan, was released as a silent picture in 1929. People who admired it for Carl Dreyer's direction, Actress Falconetti's performance in a role which gained much of its power from faithfulness to historical fact, were last week pleased that the film was being exhibited again with satisfactory sound accompaniment. The questions & answers of the trial are rendered by Radio Announcer David Ross, a musical score by Massard Kurzhene...
...Swayze '33; 6, J. W. Pierce '35; 5, Gridley Barrows '34; 4, C. F. Hovey '32; 3, Bradford Simmons '34; 2, Edward Yoemans, Jr. '33; bow, A. L. Nickerson, Jr. '33; cox, E. S. Litchfield '34. Cornell--Stroke, Payne; 7, Wilson; 6, Nevins, 5, Hartman; 4, Thompson; 3, Dreyer; 2, Vaughan; bow, Haise; cox, Tracy...
...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...