Word: marvellous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through a mad-man's eyes. They wanted to becloud the lens, to forsake realism to gain artistic reality. In 1920 this film was finished, and "Dr. Caligari" made his crooked bow to Europe. In those days nothing like it had been seen. Devotees of the arts went to marvel, and there was talk of the cinema coming of age. "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" gave the impetus for a brilliant series of European films which included Murneau's "Dracula" (1922) and "Faust," and Eisenstein's "Ten Days That Shook the World" and "Old and New." To the imaginative force...
Inventions are of themselves merely objects of wonder or marvel. It is in the use to which they are put that makes them warrant either commendation or abuse. And it is for such things as the proposed Harvard-Oxford debate rather than for the broadcasting of advertizing matter that the radio is a truly admirable thing...
...Alias "Sidney Louis," TIME, July 13) Willson, sent me and with a Victor typewriter that Vice President Al Buhler, The Victor Adding Machine Co. sent me. My feet rest on a choice "Quaker" rug that Dwight L. Armstrong. Vice President The Armstrong Cork Co. sent me and I marvel at the whiteness of the Murphy Da Cote enamel on the window and door trim that Salesmanager H. H. Pratt, Murphy Varnish Co. sent me - while Doyle Advertising Manager The Lloyd Mfg. Co. rocks contentedly in a trick rockerless rocker Lloyd Loom Chair he sent...
...Lamb '28; Holworthy 20: M. A. Francon; Thayer 29: Madison Sayles '27; Thayer 9: A. B. Martin '30; Thayer 54: J. D. Gordon, Jr. '30; Weld 5: J. H. Pratt; Weld 35; L. H. Butterfield '30; Wigglesworth A 22; F. W. Hoeing; Wigglesworth D 21: W. M. Marvel; Wigglesworth E 12: R. G. Luckey '31; Wigglesworth I 22: R. I. W. Westgate; Wigglesworth K 22: R. A. Stout '29; Fairfax 307: E. M. Rowe '27; Walter Hastings 52; Donald Hiss...
...Hollywood that even pictures as uninspired as this one are generally built into reasonably inoffensive entertainment, unmarred by the ineptitudes which can make bad plays atrocities. There is nothing distinguished about This Modem Age but, like a medium-priced sedan, it runs rapidly and smoothly along, an inconspicuous mechanical marvel which disgraces no one and will probably make a profit. Joan Crawford's new haircut, which gives the effect of a pale overgrown hedge straggling down the back of her neck, is not as unbecoming as it sounds. Good shots: Joan Crawford and Neil Hamilton (the fiance) dislodging...