Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard to say just how well Edgar John Bergren, now Bergen, would do with the Great Sphinx of Egypt. He might get a peep of personality out of the Great Silent One, provided he could give it a monocle and scarlet Mephistophelian lips. At the age of 13, quite by accident. Bergen had already made his voice seem to come from halfway down the block from where he stood...
...wall a few feet away a huge placard: "HUSH! Remember it is your duty to be silent!" The worker looked at Dr. Ley, then at the placard, then at Dr. Ley again and answered...
From the menus of some railroad dining cars and many a restaurant, beef several months ago made a silent but definite exit. From the tables of the poor, pork ("the poor man's food") has likewise long been absent. Reason for both these facts is, as every housewife knows, the current high price of meat. Last week choice steers were selling for $19.50 a cwt. in Chicago, highest price in 18 years, and angry housewives had to pay 47½?; a Ib. for sirloin which they could buy two years ago for 36? and which cost...
...Prisoner of Zenda (Selznick International). From the day of its publication, 43 years ago, Anthony Hope's famed Ruritanian romance was a dramatic natural. Since 1895 The Prisoner of Zenda has swashbuckled over the stages of the English-speaking world. In 1922 Rex Ingram produced a silent cinema version. Last week Producer David Selznick gave this colorful hardy perennial the finest treatment it has ever had. Slicked up by Screenwriters Wells Root and John L. Balderston, well-cast, well-acted and beautifully staged, The Prisoner of Zenda will hardly hearten those who want Hollywood to skate out where...
...slime . . . literature of putrescence." To younger men, such as Emile Zola, the Goncourts were prophetic pioneers. Gradually they built up a literary circle- Gautier, Sainte-Beuve, Flaubert, Renan, Taine-who used to meet fortnightly to dine well, talk how they liked. On one of these occasions, Gautier rebuked a silent guest: "As for you, I hope that the next time you come, you will compromise yourself. We all compromise ourselves here, and it is not fair that you sit by dispassionately observing us." The members' talk was not always as enamelled as their published words. On another occasion Gautier...