Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years. Indiscreet is uneven, but its moments of farce lift some of the curse of coyness. Hilarious is the scene with the ice cream cones, which starts when Swanson spies a child who is crying because he has spilled his cone on the sidewalk. Hilarious are the window breaking scenes, and the scenes in which Swanson tries to live up to the rumor that there is a dash of insanity in her family. It is too bad that a picture which is really good entertainment should suffer from sloppy photography (e.g. the shot of Swanson drying herself in a towel...
...Herald. She refinanced the unprofitable Paris Herald, made it pay. She helped found a sanatorium and nurses' training school at Saranac Lake, N. Y., a hospital (St. Luke's) in San Francisco, another at San Mateo, Calif, in memory of her parents. She gave the central chancel window of New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine in memory of her husband, founded in his name a London settlement house and seaside resort. Good churchwoman, she built the Episcopal residence at Manila, helped build the Episcopal cathedral there. Through her Red Cross work, she is credited...
...When extra long piles were needed for piers, they were sent over?sawed in pieces to fit between a ship's bulkheads. General Pershing had to order a halt on such nonessentials as "bath bricks, bath tubs, bookcases, cuspidors, floor wax, stepladders, lawn mowers, sickles, stools and window shades." Winter clothing for troops did not arrive until long after the first snows...
...occult power charms her away from her true love so that he can make money exploiting her bell-like voice. He can hypnotize her at any distance, and one of the best shots in the picture suggests how his influence bores through the night. over the rooftops from his window, and into her mind. In an age in which hypnotism was discussed as the most important development of science, and in which any love story had pathos if it was laid in the Latin quarter and contained a titled Englishman in a leading part, Trilby was a masterpiece of popular...
...Tailor Made Man would appear to have been produced in 1915 or previously. Haines's impudence is more offensive than engaging, his triumphs are too easy, the dialog is badly stilted. Most gratifying shot: the master tailor dumping a bucketful of water on Haines from a second-story window...