Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Modern Times" is of the same jolly crew as "City Lights" and "The Gold Rush". It is silent, and the lost art of pantomime finds a joyful revival. Charlie is so much more eloquent than if he were to speak in words! For with his cane, his derby, and his short moustache, with his wan smile, his angelic grin, his simpering indignation, and his dandy waddle, Charlie can discuss anything but metaphysics. When an ugly cop lowers a him his dumb show cries out, "All right, all right, officer, you needn't use force...
...safer to steer a little toward the Rock of Taxes, for the Congressional current would suck him back anyway to the Whirlpool. Hence he confirmed the fact that he would ask about half a billion in taxes to pay for his AAA substitute. On Bonus taxes he still remained silent. Meantime he took two steps to reassure the public that he was steering toward Economy...
...Parliament dissolved and a yes-man Council as his catspaws, Hillier rules England. Royalty has apparently vanished at last. There is no opposition. There are a few scattered Communists still alive, but in hiding. There are still a few liberals not yet confined to barbed-wired "camps." Factories are silent and empty; the ports are clogged with rusting ships; only the rich have enough to eat. When old-fashioned Liberal Andrew Hillier, second cousin to Dictator Frank, gets back to England from his self-imposed exile in Norway, this is the England he finds. Andrew's sister has married...
...while King and Baron had a conversation of some minutes in fluent German. After the whole line had finally passed into the next room, His Majesty joined Baron von Neurath for a much longer conversation. The German Press was exuberant at this portent, while that of France remained grimly silent on King Edward's much-observed gesture. Of British statesmen not in the pro-German camp, none was more sorely troubled than Home Secretary Sir John Simon, who as Foreign Secretary was definitely pro-French. The prestige of Sir John, when his great mind unburdens itself to Britain...
Collegiate (Paramount) is an up-to-date adaptation of Alice Duer Miller's The Charm School, which Wallace Reid made as a silent picture in 1921. It is a revealing commentary on the progress of cinematic fashions that the principal figure in the current version is a personage as unlike Matinee Idol Reid as it would be possible to find: Pantaloon Joe Penner, whose alarming ability to simulate the appearance and behavior of a congenital idiot has rapidly made him one of Hollywood's most admired comedians...