Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...horrors of starvation he had seen. Casual U. S. readers supposed this meant that Edward of Wales would eschew gayety for some weeks. But Englishmen are not like that. With duty done, H. R. H. hopped a local train for Melton Mowbray, his favorite hunting centre. After a sound night's sleep he seemed his cheerful self again, sprang to horse, and galloped off with many another after a frightened little red fox. The horse fell and sprained a foreleg, but Edward of Wales kept his seat, as he usually does, and fell with? not from?his beast...
Best current cinemas arranged (A) according to merit, (B) according to the money they made last fortnight. (A) The Wind-Storm of sand and emotions around Lillian Gish. My Man- Fanny Brice on the sound-device. The Shopworn Angel-A doughboy's love for a girl who loves dough. The Rescue- Scenic adventure from Conrad's novel. Alias Jimmy Valentine-Lionel Barrymore as a detective in the best talking picture to date. The Case of Lena Smith -Tragedy of a Viennese blonde, beautifully filmed. The Barker-Audible circus. (B) The Singing Fool, records everywhere; The Terror...
While admitting the value of the plan in its opportunity for qualified students to tackle a job of original scholarship in their final college year, one cannot but wonder if the preliminaries are truly sound. There are dangers inherent in the program. The dismissal of the entire field after only two years of undergraduate study is too likely to be a real dismissal of a mass of fact considered unworthy of full understanding in the face of the more specialized work awaiting the student. Two years can hardly give an undergraduate a mastery of his field sufficient to quality...
Weary River. Richard Barthelmess has just the kind of pleasant tenor voice that you would expect from his face. "Weary River," the theme-song of his first sound-picture, is good enough to be fairly popular. Other films about crooks, however, have had far more interesting heroes than the gangster who develops such musical talent in the prison orchestra that his girl gives him up to let him have his chance in vaudeville. Other talkies have had better dialog than Betty Compson's repetitive "Ah, Jerry," and Barthelmess's "All right, baby." Best shot: close-up of convicts...
...first rilogy that earned Author Undset the Nobel prize, for Kristin Lavransdatter combines the glamor of saga with the timelessness of fine fiction, the accuracy of sound history...