Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been adopted as Cabinet policy and he has lost his fight in camera, he dutifully buttons his tight little mouth together and only his closest friends ever hear how he felt about the matter. Personally he is fond of Franklin Roosevelt, takes this attitude: "I'm the silent partner in the firm of Roosevelt & Garner. The Chief does all the talking for the firm." And while Partner Roosevelt is talking. Partner Garner, as a loyal party-man who has voluntarily suspended his judgment as a statesman, is getting in better backstage political licks for the Administration than any Vice...
...honorary pallbearers but carrying the heavy coffin on their own shoulders, members of the Cabinet of Premier Walery Slawek moved slowly down the aisle. Outside the sun was just breaking through the rain clouds. Along silent streets lined with troops and weeping crowds, the body passed. At one spot there was a near panic. A ladder left by some workman on a tile roof clattered to the ground. People screamed, broke windows, milled about, until square-capped officers with drawn sabres had cleared a path...
...with its limited color range. . . . The technique of color is mechanically perfect now. Just as soon as the public gets a taste for color, it will no more consider going to a 'black & white' movie than it would now think of paying money to see an oldtime silent film. . . . Color on the screen is not only more natural than black & white, it is more stimulating, more exciting, more dramatic. Color, properly selected and composed, can immeasurably enhance the dramatic value of a screen story...
Divorced. Charles Ray, player of honest-farm-boy parts in oldtime silent films: by Mrs. Clara Grant Ray whom he married in 1915; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty, desertion, nonsupport. Died. John Coogan, father of retired Child Actor Jackie Coogan, 21; Junior Durkin, 19, actor (Huckleberry Finn, Little Men); and two others; when an automobile driven by the elder Coogan plunged down a mountain embankment; near San Diego, Calif. Son Coogan, only survivor of the accident, was injured. Died. Bronson Cutting, 46, U. S. Senator from New Mexico; in an airplane crash near Macon, Mo. (see p. 49). Member...
...candidate cleared his throat, opened his mouth to speak, then closed it again as a blank expression appeared on his face. The senior member of the committee stirred in his chair. He too cleared his throat, and the now silent group of scholars turned to listen...