Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absolute privacy. That is in my bath.* Now I read that even this privacy is to be vouchsafed to me only a little time longer. I view with great trepidation the coming of the day when by television my morning ablutions at St. Albans will be reflected on a screen in New York for the entertainment of the American public...
...sound. She was and is a star customer's woman.* Last week 1,100 brokers at 20 posts applauded Miss Cleary's audacity. Next week 1,099 members may have a chance to "haze" a pretty young stockbroker in skirts.f For Miss Cleary is pretty. Last week she saw screen star Nita Naldi and a prize beauty off for Europe on the midnight S. S. Paris. Flashlight men found her more smartly dressed than the former, prettier than the latter. Under the hard daylight of Watson & White's uptown stockbrokerage office in the Hotel Berkeley, she is thought still prettier...
...swoons and Dolores rescues him from the burning, falling, wicked dance hall. They forget the ashes and build anew. Absurd, yes. But packed with enough spectacles to make one gorgeously groggy. A thunderous avalanche of snow. A battle with river rapids in peapod boats. In these two scenes, the screen is moved 15 feet nearer the audience, enlarging and slightly blurring the pictures, giving a visual sensation that is like watching the gods at play. Adroitly filmed, from every angle, is The Trail of '98. Then too it contains, in the role of Swedish gold seeker, the laughably lank Karl...
...strewn about the scene, she is able to declare that at last she has found Adventure and Romance with a capital "A" and a capital "R". It is all rather amusing, however, and much better than a great deal of the pother we are now served on the silver screen...
...voices, Cinema Critic Harriette Underhill wrote: "The fact that all screen talking devices give the characters a certain lisp, slightly detracts from the serious effect. So, when the beautiful heroine clasps her hands, rolls her eyes and cries, 'Why do you perthitht in perthecuting me? I am innothent!' it sounds funnier than if she were speaking her lines in 'perthon...