Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...written declaration of his love for the great painters, for oil painting and for the female body. More noteworthy than this credo was his challenge to the school in which Discoverer Curry was discovered eight years ago: "I am glad to see that . . . the emphasis on the 'American scene' has diminished. It seemed to me preposterous and presumptuous for an artist to cultivate provincialism deliberately...
been carrying on in north China? The prospects for Chinese resistance depend to no small degree on the answer, but we have very few first hand accounts of what is going on in Hunan, the probable scene of the next fighting...
...painted by Mme. Furmanov and is acted with a power only excelled by the climax, in which a white regiment sacrifices itself in an attempt to break the morale of the Reds. For the first time in Soviet photoplay, justice has been done to their stalwart opponents, and the scene of the psychological charge, with White troops marching stoically, awesomely to their death, is typical of the Russian mind and its grim realism...
...pictures, Hardwicke stated that "dogs, little children and dumb blondes are the best actors before a camera." He emphasized the importance of the audience to dramatic creation, pointing out that no real acting could be done over a two minute stretch with hours of interval between sections of a scene...
...begins when a cool Western customer named Tom decides to try his luck gambling. No more imprudent decision was ever reached by a peace-loving citizen, for Tom found himself in the thick of three murders, eight fist fights, nine gun battles, with 28 corpses strewing the scene, not counting Indians...