Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seated within a three-panel screen, an old Negro pulls a red plush cord to swing open a small door and admit you to the Supreme Court of the U. S. Mounting two steps around a partition, you come abruptly into the court chamber. Facing you sit the nine Justices of the U. S. seated augustly behind their long desk-like bench. You immediately identify Chief Justice Taft, ponderous in the centre. The small semicircular chamber is dimly lighted. Faces, features, are not sharp. Level voices fall without echo in the shadows...
...Lovely Lady", the latest Mitzi vehicle to reach Boston where it now graces the boards of the Wilbur Theatre, is a typically hot-house musical comedy product. The first act has as its locale the screen room of the "Royale Hotel" on the Island of Caprice off the Coast of France; the second act is for the most part confined to a boudoir of the same hotel. The motivation of the plot is provided by the refusal of an arbitrary young heiress to marry the foolish Lord Islington. To escape the marriage she persuades the young Prince Paul De Morlaix...
Talking motion pictures which threaten to revolutionize so decidedly the stage and screen, will also be the instrument of making English the international language, according to the recent statement of a British film magnate. English as the practical successor to Esperanto may appear a visionary prospect until one considers the influence of the talkies in the far and near sections of the world. The younger set in the Fiji Islands, for example, are certain to become vitally interested in English upon beholding the magic of the silver screen and listening to the soft charm of the Hollywood talkies' silver tongue...
...screen presentation "The Crash" concerns the romance of a girl from a burlesque show and the boss of a wrecking crew. Their troubles and quarrels in a small town are extended to the utmost...
...love affairs, my servants, and the food I eat are not public property." When the Actors' Equity Association accused her of being a contract-breaker she pointed to the fact that she had missed only 18 performances in five years of Rain. She seems smaller off the screen than...