Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours later the cruiser screen of the Atlantic fleet was sighted, tearing through the spume at 20 knots. As the fleet deployed into line of battle canvas targets were towed into place. Twenty 15-inch guns boomed simultaneously-at a cost for this single broadside of roughly...
...fool, M. Stalin was apparently engaged last week in ingratiating himself with the "pure" Communists to whom he is something of a heretic, however potent. The way seemed clear to introduce before the conference a program of action skilfully masking the "conservative" policies of "Boss" Stalin behind a screen of fervent Leninist oratory...
...tenements, evidently to earn that "hour at the gates of Paradise'' which frequent subtitles guaranteed for every soul that resisted him. The Griffith love scenes are always poignant, original, intense; the photography masterful; he seems to make his actors do better than their best. But his screen story, at most, is a good little "morality" play that unfortunately aspired to Satanic grandeur...
...Walter Webb of Milwaukee welcomed his brethren to the diocese in which "the first attempt at a religious order for men in the English Church after the Reformation was made"; the diocese which contains some of Anglo-Catholicism's earliest relics- the first stone altar, the first rood screen, a cloth-of-gold altar-cloth; the U. S. diocese in which high-church feeling is today most concentrated...
Vitaphone and The Better 'Ole (Syd Chaplin). While Al Jolson mouths "Mammy, Mammy" on the screen, the audience hears Al Jolson throat "Mammy, Mammy" out of what sounds like a loud radio. It is the Vitaphone, now well on its way to fame as purveyor of "canned" music to theatres too small to afford orchestras. After the same slightly harsh, but perfectly synchronized reproduction of Reinald Werrenrath, Elsie Janis, and The Howards, Syd Chaplin proceeds to ramble through a long string of war comics in a film, The Better 'Ole, based on Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather's characterization...