Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silent Seventh Heaven, adapted from Austin Strong's play, made Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell the top cinema stars of their era, Frank Borzage its most eminent director. Whether the current version of the story will have the same effect remains highly dubious. Contemporary cinematic fashion calls for overdressed sentimentality masquerading as sophistication. Seventh Heaven's strongest quality is sophisticated simplicity which, for the naive, may make its fragile little story seem even more sentimental than it is. Nonetheless, despite flaws in Henry King's direction and in Melville Baker's dialog when it occurred...
...nightfall a silent army of militiamen and parents, digging in the weird glare of floodlights strung above the wreckage, had recovered almost 400 bodies. Over a hastily assembled public address system the death roll was droned out to the waiting crowds of parents, newshawks, curiosity seekers. Over the rutted red clay roads, barred to other traffic, slid a steady line of trucks, bearing bodies to improvised morgues and first-aid stations in New London, Tyler, Overton, Kilgore, Henderson. A hospital about to be dedicated in Tyler was hurriedly opened, soon filled to overflowing. Ether, chloroform, bandages, coffins, everything failed...
Stark and silent stood the forest of derricks whose clanking activity built New London and London only a few years ago. Eleven of them stood on the school's grounds. The royalties they brought furnished most of the $1,000,000 which transformed New London's old wooden schoolhouse into one of the finest rural educational plants in the U. S. Still intact were the model home economics kitchens, playgrounds, sewing rooms, laboratories, built by the black crude oil that bubbles richly under the East Texas soil. Natural gas heated the individual classroom radiators in the Consolidated School...
First countries outside the U. S. to produce good moving pictures were Germany and Russia. Most famed cinema company in Germany for the last 15 years has been UFA (Universum Film Akteingesellschaft), which made such famed silent pictures as The Last Laugh, Variety, The Golem (see p. 48). Most famed Russian director has been Sergei Eisenstein (Ten Days That Shook the World, Potemkin), who four years ago spent two years producing Thunder Over Mexico. Last week, UFA and Director Eisenstein, neither of whom has been much in the U. S. news lately, reappeared in it, both to their disadvantage...
...Anon was silent for seven years until last week Dean Herman Diederichs of the College of Engineering received from him a cashier's check for $35,000. Wrote L. H. Anon to Dean Diederichs, with the nearest thing to date to a direction for his money's use: "I shall be glad to have it applied to the endowment fund of the College of Engineering, if you think that will be the most helpful place." President Farrand agreed that the hitherto unendowed College of Engineering should keep the check as a start. Said he: "I must...