Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Two Flags (Twentieth Century-Fox). This great-aunt of all Foreign Legion stories was written in 1867 by Louise de la Ramee (Ouida), performed on the U. S. stage by Blanche Bates, in the silent cinema by Theda Bara (1916) and Priscilla Dean (1922). The current version, costly, handsome and overlong, offers a concession to modernity: Gregory Ratoff, as a Legionnaire, says with a thick Yiddish accent: "We're all supposed to be trying to forget something, but there's so much noise around here I can't remember what it is I'm supposed...
Died. Alfred Edward Housman, 77, famed English poet; in Cambridge, England. Known to his University as a typical don. prim, silent, conventional, learned; to scholars for his masterly editing of minor Latin Poets (Manilius. Juvenal, Lucan) and his blasting criticisms of slipshod predecessors; he was known to the world for his two thin books of verse. A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems. Published 26 years apart, their lucid pessimism and classic simplicity made him one of the most popular, most quotable poets of modern times. A stoical poet who wrote his verse as a bitter antidote to the poison...
...fellow who is stirring up trouble in the factory, get a few friends to buy stock in a new venture . . . or do any of a dozen other simple and ordinary things in which, a few years ago, the Federal Government had no concern whatsoever. . . . Too long have we remained silent while demagogs attack unfairly the integrity of our business institutions. . . . Too long have we introduced carelessly into the stream of our national life alien philosophies of Government control and foreign ideas of repression of the individual that have no place in this land of freedom...
...Manhattan, William S. Hart, screen star of 150 silent "Westerns," won a five-year-old damage suit against United Artists, the firm which in 1925 signed six-year contract with Hart to make talking pictures. A jury awarded him $85,000, found that United Artists had made only one Hart film, distributed it to second-rate houses, conspired to keep him from making more. Said Cinemactor Hart, who had asked for $500,000: "What those picture people did to me took the best years of my life, but thank God I have won moral victory...
Mayor Kelly last week had two alternatives: 1) play ball with Democrat Horner; or 2) hold fast to the Tribune's apron-strings and lend silent support to the Tribune's Lawyer Brooks, who proved himself an able political personality by swamping Small and the five other Republican hopefuls...