Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly as silent as, and similar in technique to, a modern Charlie Chaplin film, Extase gets its effects with four main characters, Eva, the Husband, the Lover and the Father. The father breeds horses...
...gone; and they were killed by greed and muddle and monstrous cross-purposes, by old men gobbling and roaring in clubs, by diplomats working underground like monocled moles, by journalists wanting a good story, by hysterical women waving flags, by grumbling debenture-holders, by strong, silent, beribboned asses, by fear or apathy or downright lack of imagination...
...photographer's model. A cinema executive saw her pictured in an advertisement for Fairy Soap, got her a part in The Sign of the Cross. That was in 1914, when she was 5. Star of the picture was William Farnum. Madge Evans became the Shirley Temple of the silent cinema. When she was 10 her career, as such, was over...
Then, almost at once from coast to coast, they saw a nation of grateful citizens rising in silent, heartfelt tribute...
Close-lipped Chancellor Dollfuss remained grimly silent but his official Wiener Zeitung roundly declared: "No reasonable observer of German events believes in the official version that Captain Roehm and his accomplices were just about to launch an armed revolt. It is unthinkable that an experienced soldier like Captain Roehm would spend the last hours before the outbreak of a revolt indulging in orgies in an obscure villa without even guarding its doors...