Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anyone who has a critical interest in one of America's greatest industries, this short and concise analysis of the moving pictures, both silent and talking, is one of the most valuable popular works which has been printed in this country...
...proportion of bunkum in its composition, Antia Christie is good stuff, vivid and well-constructed, with real people in it, and Garbo, as the Swedish girl who blames her luckless past on her father's neglect, is perfectly cast. One reason why this talkie is inferior to the wonderful silent picture made from the play six years ago is that the producers have apparently tried to turn it out too cheaply. Another reason is that it is stupidly directed. Every bone of the play's framework?skeleton that should be smoothed and hidden away under the flesh of character...
Optimistic and startling is this picture of God's country, once strong, silent and barbarous, now given over to good wines, good drams, and the niceties of the tender passion. It is pleasant to find that even the French, recognized specialists along those lines, realize that another well-populated nation has learned how to make love. This transportation and transplanting of the gentler arts of living to blossom like a rose even in the desert lands around Salt Lake City marks another triumph under the banner of the dollar sign. Bitter will be American globe-trotters and steamship lines when...
Down in a lonely graveyard, Where the flowers bloom and jade, There lies darling sleeping In a cold and silent grave...
...jealous abuse, but on whom she can spend-her affection. She knew that "life had no wonderful surprises after all and that its most difficult burden was the incommunicability of love." Chrysis thinks she has grown beyond passion, but in spite of herself falls in love with Pamphilus, most silent of her guests, the son of the principal man on the island. But one day Pamphilus meets Chrysis' younger sister, Glycerium, who has been kept hidden in the house, and who has stolen out for a walk. They become lovers; when Glycerium is pregnant she tells her sister...