Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stark tragedy of the crash and of the separation of the party of survivors after nerves and bodies had broken under the long vigile on the ice make a story that should hold romanticist and realist alike. The castaways themselves tell of the great white silence and its terror...
...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, $32,500 (Palace, Montreal); The Barker, $27,000 (Mainstreet, Kansas City); My Man, $18,500 (Warner Brothers, Los Angeles...
...Walska, charming wife of Harold McCormick, famed more for her wish to sing than for any actual singing. Many a manager has announced Wisher Walska, many an audience has been disappointed until newsmen have denied her a voice and she herself has pleaded stagefright. Evidently the microphone held less terror than a sea of faces for Wisher Walska sang over the radio last week as scheduled, prettily, quaveringly, the "Dich teure Halle" from Tannhauser, Giordoni's Coro Mio Ben, and "Daddy's Sweetheart" by Liza Lehmann...
...newsreel of the fighting that went on in the mud and rain in 1916 and 1917. Unlike those recent films of battle in which the courage and good-nature of the protagonists made war seem a rather admirable, phenomenal cradle of heroes, The Somme is full of death and terror, last cigarets puffed on the ground, bodies, the conquered and the conquering, piled indifferently together. Best shot: a lonely piper, making death musical for a Canadian regiment...
...While mingling with his people, incognito, one night last week, the Shah of Persia was assaulted by ruffians, who fled in screaming terror when his dirty cloak flew open and revealed the jeweled orders blazing on his breast...