Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press stand, Writer H. L. Mencken took off his coat, revealing a cocoa-colored shirt and loud suspenders. Next to Writer Mencken, Publisher Alfred A. ("Borzoi") Knopf of the American Mercury climbed up on the desk and exposed several yards of film in his small cinema camera. Then, saving the film in case something else should happen, Publisher Knopf sat down again...
...buys Captain Ramper. Speech and sanity are restored by shrewd operations; fur is shaved off electrically; and Captain Ramper becomes a man again, a popular hero. But the hurly-burly life of urban man disturbs him so much that he denounces civilization, returns to the Arctic. This film was made by First National Pictures with a German cast. Paul Wegener as Captain Ramper is proficient, though his racoon-skin costume has a collegiate twist. Original, entertaining...
...capable cinemactor, particularly in the role of an earnest young man. But here he is greased up like the late Rudolph Valentino and made to register Arabian passion under the erogenous name of Prince Fazil. The also warm Greta Nissen, as a Parisian blonde called Fabienne, spends many film feet in his arms and on his lips-be the place Paris or Venice or the desert sands. They get married, quarrel, make up, etc. And finally, DEATH-Prince Fazil, mortally wounded by bandits, takes off his poison ring and lovingly punctures the white finger of Fabienne...
...Union, one of a different character than the first. The subjects for discussion and explanation will be "Athletics" and "Physical Training." W. J. Bingham '16, director of athletics, and A. E. French '29, captain of next fall's football team, will be listed among the speakers. A moving picture film depicting various sports of the College will also be shown...
Despite the pathetic fallacy upon which this film is built, there is in it plenty of sentimental and .emotional appeal. Such sad scenes are shown as the one wherein the mournful mime requires of a doctor some remedy for his sorrow and is told to look upon the efforts of the finest clown in Rome-none other, as he glumly reflects, than himself. Lon Chaney goes off on a tear in the part of tragic Tito. While it puts some limit upon his metamorphic talent, he is able still to twist his face into many a contorted grin...