Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albuquerque Tribune, which arranged it, the trip was a fine journalistic stunt. For the children, although they did not know it, it was an extraordinary dose of education. All Juan Tomas' 40 schoolboys and girls (aged 5 to 13), except three who were ill, arrived sober and silent, drinking in everything with their eyes. They were marched first into a park for a picnic lunch and ice cream. Five little girls found they did not like ice cream, gave their cones away. The rest nibbled tentatively, then gulped...
Since the silent-film days the cinema has kept fairly close to earth. To figure out how men in other worlds might look was, to the vaulting cineminds who conceived pictures like A Trip to Mars, By Rocket to the Moon, Jupiter's Thunderbolt, a mild exercise in ingenuity. But how such out-planeters might talk, especially in conversation with men from Hollywood, has lately presented a weighty problem in linguistics. Flash Gordon is fortunate enough to find some English-speaking Martians, but with true comic-strip vigor, he usually manages to make actions speak louder than words...
...Vagabond smiled his silent approval of her act, and Meade unmourned, he placed his hand in the young girl...
...York, the State Board of Regents last week appreciated the opinion of censors that it would be unfair to Actress Garbo to permit a caricatured re-issue of her 1927 silent film, Street of Sorrow, with score, dialogue and a substitute title. The objectionable title: I Vant To Be Alone...
Meantime intrepid Herr Schuschnigg himself presided at a conference of Austrian police authorities. Present was Interior Minister Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, the only Nazi yet forced by the Führer into the Austrian Cabinet. Silent, embarrassed, sat Dr. Seyss-Inquart as Chancellor Schuschnigg ordered the police of Austria to continue the bans against: shouting "Heil Hitler!," appearing in brownshirt Nazi uniform, or holding any sort of political meeting in Austria except those of his Fatherland Front (to which Nazis are now admitted...