Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fawcett, Brandon Hurst, Emily Fitzroy and Philippe de Lacy, intelligent photography, brilliant direction are enough for any picture that includes such a performance as that supplied by Actress Garbo. The Wreck of the Hesperus, Longfellow's famed poem in its apparently rapid journey through the studios to the screen, has acquired a hero, a horse and a happy ending. The last is effected when the horse, with some aid from the hero, drags the girl from the sea. The skipper (who lashed his daughter to the mast), is the only member of the cast who drowns. The performances supplied...
...exhibition of Japanese screens done during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries will open in the Fogg Museum tomorrow. About 12 screens will be shown: among them is one specially interesting example of seventeenth century art, showing holiday-makers watching fans float on the Uji River. There is also a screen by Bunrin which is done in pure ink, without colour. Works by Bunrin are hardly available in Japan today as they are esteemed very highly...
...screen has become an integral part of Japanese architecture. Used originally to prevent drafts and to obtain privacy, it soon became a part of the decorative scheme. We know that folding screens were introduced from China before the tenth century...
...made agreeably absurd by a reversal of formula. The beautiful Zaida (Bebe Daniels) kidnaps one Captain Colton (Richard Arlen). This, after a long interval of comic complications, leads to a war with the native Arabians who are repulsed by an adroit insertion of machina in machina. On the sandy screen of white desert dunes, Zaida causes a newsreel, showing a vast army on the march, to be projected. Not used to this kind of mirage, the Arabs surrender rapidly just before the newsreel begins to make battleships float along the Sahara. The surrender of the Arabs is almost coincidental with...
...habitual sheik story with the sexes switched. A desert beauty of Spanish ancestry suddenly loves a gay officer of the Foreign Legion and adopts the movie practice of her male prototypes, while the young Frenchman, thus captive in a Bedouin palace acts out the at-first-morose screen lady...