Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cinemactress Bennett is unable to make a loud scream. When called upon to do so, she employs a professional screamer, Miss Alice Doll, who screams also for Ruth Chatterton, Kay Francis...
...this: "I should fall and break my neck." "That's immaterial to me. "Yes, but not to me." No audience wants to watch Miss Purcell being kittenish when the Chocolate Soldier invades her bedroom, agreeable as Miss Purcell certainly is, or wants to hear her beat her chest and scream "I-hate-you-I-hate-you!" And who is amused by Alexius, the type of the "Miles Gloriosus" who was a theatrical chestnut in Roman times? As for the Bulgarian army, their horseplay suggests the Pirates of Penzance on an off day; they succeed in being about as funny...
Punctually the curtain rang up. Japanese and Chinese officials charged each other with having violated the four-hour truce in various ways. As the shells began to scream again, as the roar of bombing planes played its soft prelude to the thunder of bombs, act II began, and the first actor to speak was Rear-Admiral Toma Uematsu. commander of the Japanese naval landing forces...
...Bermuda's port of Hamilton one day last week steamed the Monarch of Bermuda, bearing 350 General Electric refrigerator salesmen and other passengers and crew. That night (it was balmy) a member of the crew stealthily entered the home of Mrs. Gustav Pagenstecher. Mrs. Pagenstecher awoke with a scream, cried out that she was being attacked. Her maid heard, dashed to the rescue. The intruder transferred his attentions to her. The maid, quick-witted, seized a hatchet, which by chance Mrs. Pagenstecher had in her bedroom, and with a blow on the head drove the man from the house...
Never No More. A lynching is now taking place in Manhattan's Hudson Theatre eight times a week. It could scarcely be more horrible if Negro Actor Rudolph Toombs were actually killed. Nor could Actor Toombs scream more terrifyingly...