Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That day Franklin Roosevelt's press conference was a grave business. One question was uppermost in all minds. Correspondent Phelps Adams of the New York Sun uttered it: "Mr. President . . . can we stay out of it?" Franklin Roosevelt sat in silent concentration, eyes down, for many long seconds. Then, with utmost solemnity, he replied: "I not only sincerely hope so, but I believe we can, and every effort will be made by this Administration...
Last week as war edged closer, silencing telephones and cables (see p. 30), in the sombre and silent halls of Europe's libraries and museums communication was at an end too: the wisdom of men long dead was being packed up and laid away in vaults, in cellars, to wait as it has waited before for the end of war or crisis...
Last week as Count Csaky kept silent, opposition parties tried to make capital of Hungary's alarm, to smoke Count Csaky out. Said Tibor Eckhardt, head of the Independent Agrarian Party: "Our Foreign Minister once said that we had to demonstrate our loyalty to friendly countries in difficult times. I agree with him, but this loyalty must extend to all our friends. If . . . a German-Polish conflict breaks out, under no circumstances can we interfere." Then he challenged the Government-"Admiral Hoi thy pledged Hungary to independence and neutrality, let the Foreign Minister repeat the pledge...
Mickey Rooney's father gave him his start, aged three, in the Yule family vaudeville act, and the two played together in silent comedies when Mickey was billed as Mickey McGuire. Divorced from Mickey's mother twelve years ago, Joe Yule married Dancer Leato Hullinger, kept his song-&-dance act going as long as vaudeville. Seven years ago he turned up for a two-week engagement as featured comic at the Follies Theatre, a Los Angeles burlesque house which caters to the sailor trade. He has been there ever since. Meanwhile, Mickey's mother had pushed Mickey...
Beau Geste (Paramount), an attempt to give voice to Herbert Brenon's 1926 silent classic of the French Foreign Legion, follows its original so relentlessly that it resembles nothing so much as a talking mummy. Archeologists will recognize scene for scene the progress of the Geste brothers from happy Brandon Abbas to unhappy Morocco, while younger cinemaddicts are following less than breathlessly the mystery over who stole that sapphire of sapphires, the Blue Water. Both will be apt to find the fraternal devotion of the Gestes rather mawkish, Actor Gary Cooper something short of the Beau ideal. Although...