Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That one motion to recommit should be allowed...
...fundamental difference in the technique of the screen and of the stage was never more pertinently displayed than in the two productions of Eugene O'Neill's drama. The legitimate version was a burning torch to show other playwrights their way along the indistinct path of progress. The motion picture is?simply another motion picture. The solution seems to lie in the psychological shortcomings of cinema narration. The mind is an inscrutable phenomenon at best. Pantomime does not suffice to render it transparent...
...dollar in their exhibition of handiwork which opened in New York yesterday, but most people are of the opinion that such a course is preferable to entering the movies--and of course one enterprising cinema promoter has already made such an offer. It is a mistake to believe the motion picture cannot be associated with anything artistic or sacred, but the Passion Play of Oberammergau in the movies? Well...
...Judgment of the Storm," the first motion picture to be novelized, will be published by Doubleday, Page & Company on December 14. The setting of the story is an old Connecticut farm where big Dave drudges cheerfully from sun up to sun down to care for his mother, the all but heavenly twins light-hearted, golden-haired Mary and Bob who goes to college and spends the small surplus bank account with contemptuous carelessness. The story is concerned with the necessity of making a bitter decision and a sacrifice...
Finally, Premier Mussolini, who was the last to speak on the motion to conclude a commercial treaty with Soviet Russia, advocated de jure recognition: "Negotiations with Russia are progressing favorably. I will not discuss the social changes which have occurred there, as that is an internal Russian affair into which we cannot enter. But I will say that I infinitely prefer to have to discuss affairs with an Ambassador to doing so with a commercial representative, of whom one never knows whether he is more a business man or a political personality. For this reason, if for no other...