Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Excuse Me. Polite farce is seldom exploited favorably on the screen. It is so much easier to be funny, flinging pies. Excuse Me disturbs the tradition and manages to amuse considerably. The plot sets down in an express train a couple who have not had time to get married because their honeymoon boat leaves so soon for Honolulu. Later, arrived an airplane to speed up the [situation. Rupert Hughes was responsible for the plot; Norma Shearer and Conrad Nagel were the principal performers. Miss Shearer demonstrates that she can omit emotion and still impress the watcher as a leader...
...republicans, and on the other those who stand for socialism in one form or another. It is true that the monarchy issue was one of the more important campaign slogans, but I understand that in other countries, too, incidental issues are dragged to the front in order to screen the real issues...
...Aeolian Hall, Manhattan, was set for a concert. On it loomed no pianoforte's harp-shaped shadow; no fiddlers tried their strings; no brisk conductor raised his arm. It was bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. At the back of this bare stage, there stood a huge screen, black-bordered; down by the footlights were certain metal boxes, each topped with a keyboard of sliding buttons. Before the concert began, a man made a speech. He was Thomas Wilfred, Danish singer, who invented the instrument so curiously composed of the metal boxes, the great screen. He explained...
Assymetrical Forms Ascending, Triangular Etude, Structures, Fairy Tale of the Orient, Projected Four-Dimensional Stage Settings for a Fantastic Play. Such were the compositions of Mr. Wilfred. On the screen, like dyes filtered through fathomless deep-sea canisters, colors fainted, burned, swelled, darkened, dwindled, incredibly clear; patterns crossed, shapes passed, cubes collided, vortices spun down through hell, sucking the sight with them, and the earth, like a small ball knitted by music out of cloud and fire, whirled voiceless through the gulf where sound and color merge. Amazed were the listeners, for surely those in the dark hall listened with...
...Lighthouse by the Sea. Just as Life has run dog pictures for years successfully, often with somewhat irrelevant humor, so dog pictures on the screen will prosper no matter how pertinent the application. This present sample has a superbly absurd story about the blind ancient who keeps the light, his lovely daughter, her marcelled boy friend. Smugglers and kidnapping. Police Dog Rin-Tin-Tin does most of the rescuing, lights the beacon on the fatal night. For most people he is an all-sufficing hero...