Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dance to the music of big-name bands. Rose had his usual staff to carry out his ideas: stage designs by Albert Johnson, direction by John Murray Anderson, costumes by Raoul Pene duBois, music by Dana Suesse (Whistling in the Dark, You Ought to Be in Pictures, My Silent Love, The Night is Young and You're So Beautiful...
...himself had worked under a contemporary Dutchman, Tillemans, and from him he learned the characteristically small figures and this almost miniature technique. These groups were known as "conversation pieces," though in those of Devis the conversation has usually given way to pause. And the Vannecks especially seem withdrawn in silent contemplation...
...Like all stories which depend upon contrivance rather than on character, murder mysteries age fast. What is remarkable about The Thirteenth Chair is not that it is antiquated but that it should have withstood at all the fierce corrosion of two theatrical decades. Pathé made it as a silent in 1919, Metro as a talkie with Leila Hyams and Conrad Nagel...
Killers of the Sea (Grand National). Hero of this five-reel sport feature is one Wallace Caswell, captain of the fishing schooner Princess and constable of Panama City, Fla. Caswell. according to Lowell Thomas, whose commentary is dubbed into the silent film shot on board the Princess, conceived as a boy so trenchant a disdain for sharks, turtles, sawfish and other sea killers that upon reaching manhood he dedicated himself to slaughtering them singlehanded, using no other weapon than a fish knife...
Something of the regard with which the English invested their ceremony is known to the Americans who have paused in the Library of Congress for a silent minute before the draft of the Declaration of Independence, and who remember that the British crown is one thousand years older. It is not surprising that outsiders did not catch the spirit of the moment, for the peculiar, insular English people were at the moment most solemn and most English. "Defender of the Faith" is one of the titles of their King, but the meaning of the phrase has changed. George...