Word: screens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Published almost instantly in the papers of two continents, these and other messages from Dolores Del Rio, screen star, in Hollywood, to her divorced husband, Jaime, ill in Berlin, did not particularly impress a U. S. public accustomed to accept the quasi-private quarrels and love-making of picture people with the same scepticism usually roused by their screen depictions of the same kind of thing...
...intelligently and movingly the consequences of a circus-man's proud affection for his son and his fear that circusing will spoil the boy's chance of amounting to something. Highly admired as a stageplay two seasons ago, the story by Kenyon Nicholson is better than most screen-stories; and Milton Sills, the barker, is convincing even when he chokes his girl friend (Betty Compson) for contriving the seduction of his son by one of the carnival ladies (Dorothy Mackaill). Out of the sound device comes barker-lingo; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (the barker's son) smiles just...
...dearth of good screen productions in Hub theatres, which has been rather noticeable these past few weeks, seems destined to continue a while longer, at least as far as the Metropolitan is concerned. "Someone to Love," the Publix offering which opened yesterday, may perhaps be best described by the term naive...
...whispered that Mr. Whiteman is endeavoring to reduce and that he has succeeded to the extend of 80 pounds. Whether or not this is in preparation for his debut as a silver screen artist was not accurately determined. The picture is to be a history of Mr. Whiteman and his orchestra, presented in the form of a story...
...yellow collie; Diana, the white collie, King Cole, the black Belgian police dog. President Coolidge sat down in the club living room to see and hear Movietones of himself making his Thanksgiving proclamation, and of Kings George of England and Alfonso of Spain. The moving, talking figures on the screen excited the dogs, infuriated them. They barked and barked and BARKED. President Coolidge helped chase them from the room. The show began over again...