Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distraction--the radio, automobiles, professional baseball, and a host of others, all "spectator" amusements. Mr. Alger declares that people have no conception of the obligations as well as the pleasures of leisure, and insist on being amused instead of improved, with the same degenerating effects as those found in slave-owning peoples...
...over-fearful of ruffling the supposed Germanophobe predilections of the reading public, as is witnessed by his fortuitous depreciation of the ex-Kaiser and his forced attempts to defend the Prince ; he has failed to bring out the Prince's personality and has depicted him more as a slave of convention than an independent and vital character...
...SLAVE SHIP- Mary Johnston- Little, Brown ($2.00). One of those slow-moving but inevitable groundswells of approval- the usual reward of sound, unspectacular workmanship- has gathered behind Mary Johnston's sombre study of the 18th Century slave trade. The tale is David Scott's, told in his own burred words. A young Scotch Jacobite, he fell in with the dark traffic upon escaping from penal indenture in Virginia. The evils of that traffic, the crime of the hideous Middle Passage, bore heavy on his Scotch conscience...
American pictures have been a slave to these silly intermissions in the film, repetitions of facts that are only too obvious. It has been apparent for some time that the artistic power of the screen could never be properly developed until the pictorial art alone should carry the full burden of meaning. It is significant that European producers have dared this, and successfully. It is a definite announcement that America must yield to Europe the leadership in the art of the cinema...
...spectacle several years ago. London luxuriated in it for endless performances. It was a big sheik adventure with lots of girls and a minor supply of costumes. The picturesque Oriental attributes of the story-caves and palaces and deserts-are naturally big medicine for the cinema. Betty Blythe, the slave girl, puts her heart into the thing, as well as her hips and shoulders. The picture is a pretty good imitation. Coming Through. Thomas Meighan is, as usual, quiet and strong, kindly and brave. He is the mine superintendent who averts the strike and hurls Wallace Beery (villain...