Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This entertainment, which combines the motion-picture screen and the speaking-stage, as Mr. Thomas appears personally, has attracted several million people in England, Australia, India, and the few cities in America where it has been given. Lowell Thomas was fortunate in being able to obtain an inside story and take exclusive moving-pictures, colored and otherwise, of this "Last of the Crusades...
...wants to marry him off to a hand-picked mate. The lyrics, smooth, adroit, prettily rhymed and easily audible, are its only saving grace. Queenie Smith, with her 48 inches of saucy gaminerie, is the biggest asset. She dances like a sunbeam, stopping the show, whenever she gets in motion. Her acute low comedy sense almost twists most of her lines into a laugh. Frank Mclntyre, aside from one genuinely funny song about Sing Sing, manages to carry a comedy role by sheer weight. The rest of the company are adequate. The settings and costumes are smart...
...boardwalk, but I don't expect I will have anything to say about anything at all. . . . "I would like to see somebody else's name in the papers now and then-Jack Dempsey's or John Ringling's. . . . "I would go to a motion picture show if I could be sure I would not see pictures of an ex-Cabinet officer. . . . "If a man is too solemn, they'll think the whole weight of the world is on his shoulders. If he is gay, they'll think he is frivolous. The only thing...
...camera that works eight times faster than the swiftest known camera of today, and can take pictures by starlight alone, is the invention of Professor James Worthington, an astronomer of Carmel, Calif. He is interested chiefly in astronomical photography, but his achievements may revolutionize commercial and motion picture photography. In good moonlight a one-second exposure with Worthington's lens will give as perfect detail as a half-hour exposure with present-day cameras. His plates show shadows cast by starlight. The secret is no new discovery, he says, but "a simple fundamental," taught by Euclid long before photography...
...motion was made from the floor that the Military Science Departments be abolished at Harvard, Because it stands for war preparations. After a hurried discussion the motion was carried...