Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Movietone Follies of 1929 embeds a musical show in the conventional cinema story about an understudy who got her chance. Dancing intervals, punctuating the Negro comedy of Stepin Fetchit, get across by such not entirely original, but fairly effective devices as photographing all the girls' feet at once or all their eyes. One good color sequence partly makes up for mediocre tunes. Best shot: backstage hands on opening night...
...with the Show (Warner). The faint, yellowish color which tints this film most of the time well suits a musical show. Betty Compson is pretty and so are most of the other girls. Ethel Waters sings in her husky, exciting Negro voice. The story of backstage life is tedious, archaic, complicated. The music is about what you would get in a drawing-room operetta. In spite of these drawbacks, this picture is the most interesting of its type to date. Best shot: the ballet coming down a flight of stairs in feathers...
...separated from the dining space by tiny canals. He will propose an open air cabaret which has permanent runways, like hollow walls, winding among the tables. The performers will dance and sing above. The waiters will scurry through the hollows below. The plans of a Geddes sea food restaurant show floor, walls and ceiling of glass tanks filled with swimming fish...
...energy which flows into matter. So far as anyone knows it is consistent with all substances. If atoms are knots of universal waves, as has been theorized, it may be at that transcendental moment when the knots get intricate enough to "materialize" as atoms that heat begins to show in them. Conversely, when all heat has been driven from a substance, as Professor Keesom almost did last week, it may be that "matter" will explode into those universal waves which man at present can call only "nothingness." What the violence of such an explosion might be, no man can guess...
...Henry used the trolley cars to go to the factory leaving the sedan for Aurelia. Almost every morning she drove down town, left the car in a hired parking space, and walked to a department store, taking note of her reflection in all the plate glass show windows on the way. In the store she might spend an hour pricing things and perhaps matching a shred of silk, buying a pair of stockings, a small vial of perfume or a box of scented powder. Then she would hurry to keep an engagement to lunch indigestibly with Stella Greeley...