Word: roles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 was shot...
...patronage, "unless you change your style or start a phonographic record department" must present a saddening alternative. Incidentally, our Junior's use of such verbal banalities as "quite a few," "Variety has far more than you" and so on, emphasizes the nerve of him, in assuming the role of Mentor to TIME in the matter of style...
Joseph Jefferson. Remembered by the last generation of theatre addicts, he made famous the role of Rip Van Winkle, which he acted for 40 years in the U. S., Australia, England. He had a son whose name is Thomas Jefferson...
...filming of "Wings," another picture dealing with flying and the war. According to critics, the directing of this production by William Wellman, and the writing of it by J. M. Saunders, author also of "Wings," makes it one of the better war pictures. Gary Cooper plays the leading male role, that of Gale Price, and the feminine lead is taken by another new-comer to the Paramount ranks. Fay Wray...
...Fields has the role of the smooth tongued promoter who makes ordinary intelligent people pay good money for prettily engraved paper and smile about doing it. Chester Conklin is the substantial citizen who has a beautiful daughter, an unerring accuracy with a pool cue, and a wife with social ambitions...