Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snow White, like Mickey Mouse, was a creature of necessity. After sound came whooping in, Disney needed a character to replace silent Oswald The Rabbit. From a night of heavy thinking in an upper berth in 1928, Mickey Mouse was born. When the bulging double-feature movement began three years ago to crowd out the Disney shorts, Disney resolved to enter the feature field himself...
...Dopey so unexpectedly heart-winning that Disney may use the mute, youngest dwarf in a series of his own. Wood creatures have been animated with the same type of clever personalities that birds and animals acquire in the Disney shorts. Songs, dialogue in verse, dialogue in prose and silent sequences with incidental sound and music have been worked into a harmonious pattern. Catchiest tune: Hi-Ho, as the dwarfs trudge home from work. Tunesmiths: Frank Churchill (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf) and Larry Morey. Technicolor is used with simpler and stronger effects than ever before...
Next day, as newsboys hawked George Leoles' name in the streets, he failed in his round of customers to pick up a single hat. Outside his shop marched an American Legionnaire picket. Soon a silent figure in the full regalia of the Ku Klux Klan joined the Legionnaire. George Leoles hurriedly sold his shop...
Dictator & King. Grimly silent was Portuguese Dictator Salazar this week. Portugal has been supplying Rightist Spain and her German ally, and the Dictator showed every sign of feeling that he can sit tight on the question of Angola. No dictator is King Leopold of the Belgians. Announced his Foreign Minister Spaak: "Should the question arise, Belgium is prepared to defend the colony (Belgian Congo) with all the means within our power. From London we learn that the British viewpoint would never admit an accord detrimental to other countries...
...twenty years." When Pepita died in childbirth at 40 she left five children. Queen Victoria's namesake, Victoria Josefa Dolores Catalina, Author Sackville-West's mother, was the second oldest. Pepita's story, because she herself never speaks in it, has the atmosphere of the old silent cinema. Victoria's is well wired for sound, even some fury...