Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...color replaces black & white photography, the change will be less abrupt than that from silent pictures to sound, partly because color requires no new exhibiting apparatus. Nonetheless, the swing to color, barely perceptible last year, will be highly noticeable in 1936-37. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine and Dancing Pirate were last season's only colored features. Next season United Artists will make six, Twentieth Century-Fox two, Paramount two, Warner, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Amkino one each...
Poppy (Paramount), in which W. C. Fields played on the stage in 1923 and the silent screen in 1925, is still an almost ideal vehicle for its bulb-nosed star. As Professor Eustace McGargle, broken down carnival spieler accompanied by his docile & devoted ward (Rochelle Hudson), he wanders into a village tent show, bulldozes the proprietor into giving him a concession, teaches yokels the intricacies of the pea & shell game, palms off his ward as heiress to the town's biggest fortune. By the time it has been established that she really is an heiress, W. C. Fields...
...have been clamoring ever since for Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. Hollywood had barely tapped the Herbert catalog before. It used The Fortune Teller as a Spanish short to display the negligible talents of Enrico Caruso Jr. The Red Mitt plot served Marion Davies once in the days of silent pictures. A distorted version of Mademoiselle Modiste called Kiss Me Again passed by practically unnoticed when it was produced in 1931. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer experimented with Babes in Toyland (1934), kept only three of the original Herbert tunes, rearranged the plot to suit Comics Laurel & Hardy...
...hour and a half later a silent, dejected figure clumped up the Harvard Square subway station, walked down to Winthrop House, and stole into his room. He wouldn't speak to his two companions for a week...
...stimulus to more than one open-mouthed and sometimes silent undergraduate delegate from each of the three colleges is undeniable; just as the clarity and accuracy in the presentation of the problems was surprisingly illuminating. If for no other reason than that stimulus and clarification, the undergraduate viewpoint was widened; the conference was a success, and its continuance at Harvard next February is justified...