Word: sybil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FOREIGN INVASION CARMEN (Spanish, Raquel Meller), DAWN (English, Sybil Thorndike), BERLIN: THE SYMPHONY OF A BIG CITY (German, no plot, no subtitles, no stars), THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG (Russian, the Soviet triumphant...
Dawn has appeared in the U. S., thoroughly emasculated. A passive audience, brief applause greeted the first Manhattan showing of the British film that had put Parliament in a furor (TIME, March 12). The climactic scene-the execution of Nurse Edith Cavell-has been practically killed. Sybil Thorndike, who plays the role of Nurse Cavell, is shown facing a German firing squad. One German soldier refuses to raise his rifle when the command is given. There is a pause, a blot-out; then the grave of Nurse Cavell is flashed on the screen. In the original film, the disobedient soldier...
When Pauline Frederick, U. S. cinemactress, was "recalled" to the U. S. last week and her place in the Edith Cavell film, now being "shot" in Belgium, was given to Sybil Thorndyke, English actress, a mighty hullabaloo went up on all sides-but it was all about Edith Cavell, the British nurse that the Germans shot as a spy on Oct. 12, 1915, not about Pauline Frederick...
...bedside in a Chicago hospital. Flowers from Gertrude Ederle, Jack Dempsey, Tex Rickard and many another were brought in by her parents. She had been sick for 92 days. She, who had many times looked up from thrashing waters and laughed at the sun, grew pale, saw no sun. Sybil Bauer had ceased to live; her family, her fiance, sports lovers, bowed their heads...
...Died. Sybil Bauer, 23, famed swimmer, of an intestinal disorder, following 92 days' illness; at Chicago...