Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racket as background for a fable illuminated by a far more prosaic fancy than City Streets (see above). There are shots of racketeers playing water on cement, blowing up buildings, ruining milk-cans with bullets. The frustrated hero is Spencer Tracy. By blackmailing builders he rises to become the silent partner of a rich building contractor. He tries to cut a figure in society to win the love of his partner's sister. In the end he is shot down by the lowly racketeers whom he has learned to scorn. In spite of an able cast that includes Marguerite Churchill...
...follows the standard rules of presidential politics (TIME, Nov. 24), a candidate for the White House will never publicly appear to seek office. Aloof and silent, he will feign indifference while his friends build up sufficient popular sentiment to give his candidacy the appearance of a draft movement. But last week in Maryland Dr. Joseph Irwin France, one time (1917-23) Republican Senator, reversed the usual procedure by announcing his candidacy for the nomination against President Hoover next year. Truthfully he added that he had no promises what ever of public support. As the first step in his campaign...
Finally Siamese are unaffectedly religious, which is not to say good or goody-goody. Buddhist priests in plain yellow robes go from house to house in the early mornings, stop motionless and silent before each door proffering a bowl. If no food is placed in the bowl the priest moves on. If food is forthcoming, as it nearly everywhere is, he hurries with his bowl to the Buddhist monastery, shares with his fellows, devotes the rest of the morning and the day to religious duties...
...Connecticut Yankee (Fox). Mark Twain's story was made into an effective farce in silent cinema days, starring Harry Myers; then it became a successful musi-comedy. But not until its present metamorphosis into a talking picture has a form been reached in which the many-faceted material is properly displayed. Few creative works are translatable from one medium to another, but A Connecticut Yankee is no less trenchant as a picture than as a novel; it is wonderful entertainment, rippling with chuckles, expanding often into resonant Twainian belly-laughs. Director David Butler has omitted the sociological satire...
...German hotel. MIRACLE AT VERDUN-What might happen if the eight million War dead rose. ONCE IN A LIFETIME-Hilarious nose-thumbing at moviedom. THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET- Katherine Cornell. THE GREEN PASTURES-If the Lord were a colored preacher; if Gabriel were a Pullman porter. THE SILENT WITNESS-A mystery play which manages to mystify. TOMORROW AND TOMORROW-Problems of a rich young family in a small town. Musical-AMERICA'S SWEETHEART FINE & DANDY, GIRL CRAZY, THE NEW YORKERS, THREE'S A CROWD...