Word: tell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crowd. Director King Vidor and Scenarist John V. A. Weaver tell here honestly, finely, the story of an American Everyman, the man in the street, born to run with the pack. They put Eleanor Boardman, wife of Director Vidor, into the role of the wife, where she played with disconcerting beauty. They put James Murray, virile boy, into the part of John Sims, average child, average man. They seated him at a desk, one of a thousand clerks, high in a skyscraper. They sent him, fermenting with spring, to Coney Island with his girl, had him kiss...
...luckless victim. Jean Cocteau took the Greek, made a text of it for Stravinsky, gave it to Monsieur J. Danielou who put it into Latin. In Latin, then, scorning all theatrical device, Stravinsky presented his (Edipus. He had a speaker (in Boston last week it was Paul Leyssac), to tell the story step by step. He had specific soloists-Charles Hackett for (Edipus, Margaret Matzenauer for Jocastá, Fraser Gange for Tiresias-and the Harvard Glee Club for his chorus. But they wore only conventional concert dress. They were forbidden to do any business, or to create any illusion. Illusion...
...Shaggy-haired John L. Baird, inventor of the apparatus, was there; promised to broadcast television programs each night at midnight, and warned that the sets would receive only blurred silhouettes. Television amateurs were interested to hear that a monthly periodical would be issued within a few weeks to tell them how to manage their new sets...
Sometimes human beings do things that are too much for even the most indurate newsgatherers of the daily press to contemplate without shuddering. But newsgatherers must tell all. The more terrible the scene, the faster news of it will travel, if not by direct word then by dark references, glances over shoulders, ominous silences. It is a newsgatherer's duty to make his report before hints and half-facts have gained currency, letting his editor decide whether the report should ever be made public...
Last week a correspondent of the Pittsburgh Press had to report a happening in the coalfields near Sharon, Pa. From the stereotyped "slayer" headline slapped on in the office, from the position given the item on the Press' pink-page, it was difficult to tell whether Editor J. Y. Chidester of the Press appreciated how hideous an event had actually taken-place or with what powerful, self-controlled simplicity the correspondent had done his duty when he wrote the following...