Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome Express (Gaumont-British Pictures Corp.). You can readily guess what kinds of travelers are to be found in this picture: a picture thief (Conrad Veidt), his accomplice (Hugh Williams), a cinemactress (Esther Ralston), a businessman eloping with his partner's wife (Joan Barry), a fuzzy British tourist with a regurgitative chuckle (Gordon Harker), a U. S. millionaire traveling with his secretary, a chief of police, a nervous spinster. The picture thief's accomplice renews an old romance with the cinemactress while the picture thief is murdering a timid little rascal for stealing a Van Dyck which, through...
Temporarily Havana was cut off from the provinces when telephone and telegraph wires were slashed in a dozen places. Suspecting revolt in Santiago, 800 government troops commandeered the night express, rushed thither. When communications were restored, iron government censorship left correspondents in Havana uncertain whether revolution...
...high time that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences adopted a Baum's Law to punish, with progressive severity, any further thefts of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel formula. Aside from this defect, Rome Express, by far the most successful effort yet imported from England, is a more than passable program picture. Conrad Veidt is one of the dankest villains ever to infest a wagonlit; Director Walter Forde gives you the feeling of a train, not with two reels of atmosphere shots like the ones Josef von Sternberg used in Shanghai Express but with a sharp...
...Bankers-New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. last week inaugurated a low-price, no-tipping dining car service on its Bankers' Express, "Coffee and a doughnut...
General Aviation Corp. has an airplane factory near Baltimore. Also it owns about one-fourth of Western Air Express. Western Air Express and T. A. T. each own 47 1/2% of the big line named Transcontinental & Western...