Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, it is the work of the school of Great Decorators in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which makes the contents of these three rooms stand out in the memory of the casual observer, the student lounging there after a Fine Arts examination. That screen on the dais, with its silver gray background and autumn flowers behind a brushwood fence, is echoed in the huge grey globe of Shigaraki pottery. The red camelia of the screen finds a red reflection in the lacquer of the ancient stand below. So too with the insolent macaw by Jakucho as his whiteness...
...Fortune Hunter. Funnyman Syd Chaplin is never nearly so funny as his famed brother. What with his wide grin and his rapid trotting motion, he seldom cuts a solemn figure on the screen. Herein, first trying to marry a rich beautiful girl for money he is aided by the grace, charm and beauty of Helene Costello (sister to the famed Dolores). Later, trying to marry a poor, blonde girl for love, he is obstructed by Clara Horton, a horrible ingenue...
...LAST POST?Ford Madox Ford? A. & C. Boni ($2.50). The supreme ability of Author Ford, as displayed in all of his previous works, is that of implying the presence of profundities, tragedies, actions which he is presumably unable to state. His prolixity makes a dark and impenetrable screen around his stories; the only suspense is that of waiting for something to be said, something to happen. In The Last Post, as in the three preceding volumes (Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up) of the series which it concludes, the story veers and sways, the characters...
...mitigate. Besides the great patriotic strain which runs throughout the plot, the vivid historical background, the nautical realism, there are five individual dramatic performances which transcend almost any recent histrionic portrayals of the cinema. Charles Farrell and Esther Ralston perform beautifully together; Wallace Beery and George Bancroft make the screen's best comic pair; and Johnny Walker as Decatur is a gallant and heroic figure. Of course, the "Constitution" has the lead and holds...
...campaign for 'America first,' now being conducted in Chicago by Mayor Thmpson is nothing more than a smoke-screen, thrown up by the group in power ther to cloak their real purposes," was all that David Saville Muzzey '93, Professor of History at Columbia University, would say specifically about the situation existing in Chicago at the present time, when questioned by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. One of Professor Muzzey's books was included in the large number of volumes on American history formerly kept in the Chicago public libraries and which "Big Bill" ordered withdrawn from circulation and immediately destroyed...