Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wide world called him Chariot, Carlos, Cha-pu-rin and as many more variations as there are languages. Had City Lights been a failure, Hollywood would have been personally and bitterly depressed. But Hollywood was not depressed. Neither was it frightened. For though City Lights is a successful silent challenge to the talkies, its success derives solely from the little man with the battered hat, bamboo cane and black mustache. Critics agree that he, whose posterior would probably be recognized by more people throughout the world than would recognize any other man's face, will be doing business after...
Charlie Chaplin does not choose to speak. A conservative at heart, despite his caperings, the first comedian of the screen has made his latest picture after the mute manner. One by one the advocates of silent acting have been coaxed by producers or brow-beaten by public taste into becoming articulate. The result has been trying. No longer need a person who lisps or has a major impediment in their speech worry about a vocation. They can now go into pictures. And if the infirmament is noticeable enough they are often whisked to stardom...
...method of evaluation in a methodical way will not be indifferent to opportunities which allow them to exercise and reveal their powers, whether those opportunities be offered in the recitation hour or in the examination period. The examination, viewed in the light, is for the pupils a friendly and silent insurance against unrecognized merit--as well as a warning against scant daily preparation
Died. Alma Rubens, 33, cinemactress (Humoresque, The Valley of Silent Men, Enemies of Women); of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Famed for her dark beauty, she married thrice (Actor Franklyn Farnum, Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman, Actor Ricardo Cortez), divorced twice. Some years ago she became addicted to narcotics, appeared seldom thereafter in the cinema. Last month she was arrested in San Diego, charged with possession of narcotics, released on $5,000 bail...
...Days Ago." Because at the end of 1929 James Augustine Farrell was bullish, and because at the end of 1930 he was silent, many a person thought that perhaps the president of United States Steel Corp. nursed dark, not-to-be-spoken views. Last week all such ideas were quickly shattered. In Chicago blocky, white-haired Mr. Farrell arose to address a convention of the National Canners and National Wholesale Grocers Association. He was far more bullish than those who predict a turning-point in the "not distant future." Said he: "The peak of the Depression passed 30 days...