Word: silent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Divorced. Constance Talmadge Netcher, 38, oldtime silent cinemactress; from her third husband, Townsend Netcher, wealthy Chicago socialite; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion...
...first produced in Paris in 1890, as a vehicle for Gabrielle Réjane. Eight years later, David Belasco used it to further the fabulous career of red-headed Mrs. Leslie Carter. In 1920, Zaza became an opera for Geraldine Farrar. In 1923, Gloria Swanson was Zaza in a silent picture. A favorite item in the repertory of stock-company leading ladies the world over, Zaza has been running off & on ever since Playwrights Pierre Berton and Charles Simon wrote it, has probably alarmed more censors than any other single drama in the 20th Century...
...when he returned to Harvard for a year as Charles Eliot Norton Professor, U. S. critics seethed to see him wince at Americanisms, to hear him admit he had little knowledge of U. S. poetry or interest in it. He gave reticent teas, at which young Harvard intellectuals silently watched the silent poet eat cake. Eliot seemed to enjoy flaunting his English ways: "I tend," said he, "to fall asleep in club armchairs, but I believe my brain works as well as ever, whatever that is, after I have...
Kirsten Flagstad (Sat. 11:57 p. m. NBC-Red, Blue) sings Silent Night to carry on the annual tradition set by the late, great Ernestine Schumann-Heink...
That night there is snow, and its soft silent falling does much to cool his feverish vacation marathon. He finds that the mad dashings, the enforced gaieties which have so far characterized his holiday activities have now a thin crust of ice tinging their edges. In a so-white, so-virginal, so-hushed world, it becomes unseemly to talk loudly and vacuously with hometown people, to rush hastily from place to place, and to find final lodgement at the noisiest, the most crowded, most frenzied party-dance. But that is what everyone he knows insists on doing. And likewise...