Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Duke of Sutherland, lazying at Lausanne, saw a photograph of the portrait in the Sun, with a report of its presence in the U. S. For a moment the Duke wondered if he was bemused. But there could be no doubt that his pictured ancestress remained as she had for years, at his country home in Guildford, England. He so informed...
...Broadway producers, however, shrugged shoulders at the talkie threat. Said Arthur Hammerstein: "The public . . . is skeptical. . . ." Said Florenz Ziegfeld: "Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world." It is obvious that, even if speaking cinemas lose their present lisp and rasp, the illusion produced by an articulate photograph of John Barrymore as Hamlet can never be as satisfying as the illusion produced by Actor Barrymore himself. What is at present the talkies' outstanding attraction?the fact that a picture can talk? must, after its novelty has disappeared, become their outstanding limitation?the fact that it is only...
However, a photograph published by the New York Times which is herewith enclosed, shows Mr. Coolidge standing, on the occasion cited. A friend of mine who saw the movie reproduction, states that Mr. Coolidge stood on this occasion...
Over the mantelpiece in the Officers' Club, there hangs a photograph showing several of its War-veteran members standing with their flag before the Empire's most sacred military shrine?the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Proudly erect and tall beside the flag bearer stands Captain Barker, wearing seven decorations, including the D. S. O. Last week in Andover the Captain's former valet, one Wrigley, exclaimed incredulously: "Why the Captain always left his razors and soap-filled brush for me to put away. And I used to take his boy for walks! A little tyke he was, and always talking about...
...simplest, involving only the removal of Queen Maria Christina's secular garments and the robing of her corpse in the habit of a nun, for King Alfonso absolutely forbade that the body should be embalmed. He also refused to permit the taking of the usual state photograph of the corpse...