Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dawn has appeared in the U. S., thoroughly emasculated. A passive audience, brief applause greeted the first Manhattan showing of the British film that had put Parliament in a furor (TIME, March 12). The climactic scene-the execution of Nurse Edith Cavell-has been practically killed. Sybil Thorndike, who plays the role of Nurse Cavell, is shown facing a German firing squad. One German soldier refuses to raise his rifle when the command is given. There is a pause, a blot-out; then the grave of Nurse Cavell is flashed on the screen. In the original film, the disobedient soldier...
...certainly irritate those who dislike Communism as it will those who feel that they deserve a story in return for the effort of watching a screen for two hours. Its photography is sufficiently original and its glimpses of uncomfortable armies and furious peasants are good enough to make the film fairly exciting for those whose esthetic instincts can sometimes be aroused by the cinema...
...Stair is unique as an important publisher. Other publishers of his rank have sedulously avoided open relations with other business enterprises. William Randolph Hearst, for all his wealth, is publicly a director only in Cosmopolitan Finance Co., and the International Film Service Co. His Arthur Brisbane, who is rich in real estate and touts great corporations in his syndicated editorials, is known to be director of no company. Roy Wilson Howard tends closely to his newspaper and affiliated enterprises. So also Conde-Nast, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and the Booths (George G. and Ralph Harman) of Detroit, and Adolph Ochs...
Hangman's House. An authentic Irish flavor, a grand horse race and a Citizen Hogan (Victor McLaglen) who says: "You'll have to excuse me for a while, as I've got a man to kill," are refreshing in the film version of Donn Byrne's fine novel...
...years ago Mr. Kennedy, in his mid 30's, took a better business position. With the aid of rich friends he bought from British investors control of FBO (Film...