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Word: screen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...falls asleep at his machine and dreams he is a great detective-the kind that only the cinema can produce. The unexpected, fantastic dream situations lend themselves to some remarkable trick effects, including one in which Buster walks right out of an audience and into a picture on the screen, only to be promptly hurled back into the audience by one of the players acting on the silver sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 2, 1924 | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

...fuss and feathers thinly disguised as acting. This time Miss Murray has her histrionic hysterics in Mexico. The general blurred impression given by the picture is like this: Mae Murray-large mountains -Mae Murray-midnight love trysts -Mae Murray-a weird fandango by somebody described as a screen star -Mae Murray - cowboys having spasms-Mae Murray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 2, 1924 | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

...Love Master. Strongheart is still one of the best screen actors, for this canine artist is as unconscious of self and of the camera as every hair on his back. In this story of the North he proves again his authentic appeal, winning a dog race at Banff on which his master's fortune-and the plot-hang. Strong-heart seems spurred on to greater efforts than usual, for this time he is performing before his consort and their family of five pups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 26, 1924 | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

...stuff about the screen. We can take a leaf from our success with the News and put in a couple of pages of news photographs-everybody likes pictures. And a few of that not-too-serious kind of article that gets away strong in The Saturday Evening Post. Oh, yes, and add a few of those 'inspirational' articles that the American Magazine makes its living by, and some of the women's heart stuff and patterns-the things that sell women's magazines. We can print the whole thing by 'coloroto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: When Portland Went Crazy | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

Players from Dallas journeyed to Manhattan, competed in the second annual Little Theatre (amateur) tournament, and were awarded the Belasco Cup-proof enough that the great open spaces still produce stirring drama, on stage as well as screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Texas Players | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

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