Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looks and acts like anything but a Hollywood cinemagnate is no accident. A bright young Budapest journalist who got interested in the cinema in 1916, he reached Hollywood by way of Vienna, Rome and Berlin in 1925. His Private Life of Helen of Troy was one of the best silent pictures of its era. When Director Korda left Hollywood in 1928, however, he had had enough of its methods to last him a lifetime. The Private Life of Henry VIII, which he produced on a shoestring in 1933 and which made cinema stars of five actors in the cast from...
American Telephone & Telegraph, Western Union and Postal Telegraph rushed armies of troubleshooters into the field to unscramble their wrecked wires and poles. After 24 hours A. T. & T. reported more than 351,000 telephones still dead. Newspaper plants were awash; broadcasting stations went silent for lack of power as operators scampered to higher ground (see p. 59). Hampered in their movements, forced to guess wildly at the extent of death and damage, overwhelmed newshawks sent reports marked by the breadth and sweep of war dispatches...
...most, but Saturday things took a turn for the worse. The children came out with a brand new idea--night maneuvers. Dunster has always prided itself in its distance from the hubbub and turmoil of Harvard Square or Bolyston Street, but alas and alackaday, those quiet days and silent nights are gone forever. Solemnly advised an Aentry man: "Freshman, pick your House with a cinder path or a nice brick walk...
...companies of Hollywood, Universal Pictures Corp. is the oldest and possibly the most extraordinary. It was formed in 1912 by Carl ("Uncle Carl") Laemmle. For the past 20 years it has produced an average of 40 pictures a year, with emphasis on horror films and Westerns. Its most famed silent picture was The Hunchback of Notre Dame. For the past year, Hollywood has heard rumors that Universal was for sale. Last week the rumors were confirmed. Uncle Carl Laemmle sold his controlling interest in the company - 80% of the common stock - to a group headed by Poloist-Banker J. Cheever...
...cinema dealing with songwriters might well take Warren & Dubin for two type characters. Composer Warren is nearsighted and thin, suffers from nervous indigestion, a relic of the days of silent pictures when he played the piano in the old Vitagraph studios, attempted to provide an atmosphere that would inspire the actors...