Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before a quiet house with drawn shades he beheld a silent congregation. He went inside. The air was sweet with the smell of many flowers banked around the lower rooms. To a little grey-haired lady who was trying very hard to be composed, the President spoke in gentle consolation. He offered her the use of the White House or any other facility of the U. S. she wanted. As he emerged a few minutes later he lifted his bowed head to nod a greeting to Chief Justice Hughes going...
...cannot be silent about the fact that neither the Pope nor the Archbishop of Canterbury ever did anything when Tsarist Russia persecuted the Jews...
...woman who, innocently compromised, has been divorced by her husband. She goes to work as a dancer in a roof garden show and after a while becomes the mistress of the resort's richest habitue. All daring stuff when Miss Griffith made Lilies of the Field as a silent picture, the little plot seems mild enough now, and its denouement, in which the girl marries her lover, can be foreseen by the end of the first reel. Corinne Griffith's charm is the only thing that gets it over, but it is obvious at times that...
...Lady to Love (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted-the play of the waitress from San Francisco who went to the country to marry a man she had never seen, who had proposed to her 'by mail- was made into a silent picture in 1928, with Pola Negri. It was called then The Secret Hour. A Lady to Love is less sophisticated than The Secret Hour but it is splendidly acted and well cast. Vilma Banky is the waitress, Edward G. Robinson the man she marries, Robert Ames the handsome farm hand whose...
...analogous arts is probably the most original part of the volume, while his critical discussion of the history of cinema since the days when it was used for peep-shows leads up to a final comparison of the Russian productions of Eisenstein and Pudowkin, representing the finest work in silent filming, and the talkies...