Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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first English film of any importance ever to visit our shores has been released. It is a light hearted story of the playful mistress of Charles II, full of character, atmosphere, humor. It is devoid of the dull wastes of costume and scenery usual in such endeavors. It tells a simple comedy simply and ends it with the true pathos of tragedy. Nell Gwyn is shown meeting the King outside Drury Lane. She rises through his patronage to a prominent place on the English stage. Through his favor she confounds the haughty females of the court. He dies with...
...Pulitzer Prize but he does not object to the butchery of his literature in pictures. It is to be supposed that Mr. Lewis contrived his latest story with some care and regards it with some pride. In the movies it comes out as just one more of those dull afternoons. The story tells of a lawyer in a lonely north woods town. He engages in a flirtation with a lovely lady who has once been a manicurist in Minneapolis but is now the wife of one of the best inhabitants of Mantrap. Percy Marmont, always a good actor...
Last week Mr. Stickney sat dull-eyed. Acute prophets had augured a smashing victory for Mr. Dale. Not that Mr. Stickney had heeded these portents; but apparently Mr. Coolidge had. The Chief Executive, perhaps annoyed by the fiascos of his followers in North Dakota, Illinois, Oregon, Iowa, perhaps unwilling to court a possible strike-out in his native state, evidently refused to support his cousin. . . . Mr. Stickney made an announcement. He had not felt well lately. In the fall, he would...
Able Baltimore Sunman* Frank R. Kent recently toured, then exposed, censured, praised the South. Blushingly he conceded that "all this sounds like the dull booming of a local Chamber of Commerce." Then, full-throated, he said, "The astounding thing is that the figures of the Birmingham growth and development, of Atlanta's march ahead, of the strides in the Winston-Salem and Durham districts, check up. The claims made cannot be discounted nor the statements of the extraordinary expansion refuted. The rise in Birmingham's population from 35,000 in 1900 to 250,000 in 1926 tells...
...nine-inch lens (the largest ever ground for a camera) to photograph the earth from an altitude of seven miles or so. Experts of the Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, N. Y.) had fashioned it, providing also a film specially sensitized to record light at the infra-red (long wave, dull light) end of the spectrum, a film taking exposures nine inches square, 100 exposures to a roll. Lieut. George W. Goddard will soon have the camera mounted in the rear cockpit of his plane, at the flying post in Dayton, Ohio, with a heating apparatus around it to protect...