Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year Film Daily asks cinema critics to pick the ten directors they liked best. Last week the last ballot was counted. Elections: 1) Alfred E. Green of Warner (Disraeli, The Green Goddess, The Man from Blankley's); 2) King Vidor of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Hallelujah, Not So Dumb); 3) Clarence Brown of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Anna Christie, Wonder of Women) ; 4) Lionel Barrymore of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Madame X, His Glorious Night). Others: Ernst Lubitsch, Roy Del Ruth, Herbert Brenon, James Whale, Frank Lloyd, Sidney Franklin. Good directors not placed: Raoul Walsh, Dorothy Arzner, Edmund Goulding, Frank Borzage...
...usual, while other politicians remained silent in dumb perplexity, Mr. David Lloyd George erupted into safe and pious words. To the Congregationalist Council at Bournemouth (see p. 60) he thundered...
Exclusive of ordinary illness the U. S. has about 75,000 blind, 45,000 deaf and dumb, 300,000 mental defectives, 700,000 persons crippled so that they cannot earn their living. Maintaining those handicapped individuals costs $100,000,000 yearly. Deaths from tuberculosis cause a national loss of $1,500,000,000 yearly. Taxpayers yearly pay $800,000,000 to support tubercular victims, $90,000,000 for heart cases, $37,000,000 for the physically handicapped?a total...
...pipe in which such a monstrosity might have whispered to his cronies. As a talkie, The Unholy Three is less hair-raising because its sounds have become explicit. Lon Chancy still impersonates Professor Echo, a ventriloquist in a carnival who, when he turns thief, capitalizes his talents to make dumb parrots talk, to visit complaining purchasers in the guise of a muddled old lady while making notes for robbery. Later, when his associates have committed a murder, Echo takes the witness stand as Mrs. O'Grady to save a youth unjustly accused of a crime committed by Echo...
...Chaney's mother was Emma Kennedy, the daughter of a distinguished Coloradoan. She married a good-natured Irish barber who, like herself, was deaf & dumb. Lon, the second of four normal children, left school at the age of nine to take care of her. He could make his mother understand him by contorting his face into significant expressions. At 13 he went to work as a guide to tourists on Pike's Peak. Later he was carpet-layer, stage hand, vaudevillist. He married his singing and dancing partner; their son is a lawyer in Hollywood...