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...days?yet its often mechanical sequences are brought to life by Director Josef von Sternberg. Always aware that a moving picture ought to move, von Sternberg tells the story rapidly and often silently, so that Morocco has the effect of being a silent picture into which dialog has been woven, not the "incidental dialog" of the primitive, remade silent pictures, but incisive, necessary words, labelling and shaping the main currents of the plot. Marlene Dietrich talks with hardly a trace of accent. In her first U. S. picture she lives up to the elaborate publicity issued for her. Her curiously...
Harmonic drama in all of its trappings will be furnished in the playing of Wagner's prelude to "The Master-singers of Nuremberg". In this opus a march theme is ingeniously woven into the theme which suggests the love of Walther and Eva. The score holds many surprises and, in all, is intensely stimulating...
...Woven Fabrics wholly or in chief part by weight of silk in the gum, not degummed nor bleached, not less than 20 inches in width, weighing not more than seven pounds for each 100 yards thereof, imported for the purpose of being degummed, dyed and finished in Canada: ["B. P."] /71%, ["Intermediate"] 30%, ("General...
...great English country house, one of the many built to be the glory of the aristocracy but becoming its grievous burden, is the dominating personality of this novel. The figures of the story are drawn from the unreal, tightly woven society of the reign of King Edward VII. Characters and house together present the argument: that there is no living under the weight of aristocratic tradition, but only a formalized existence of satisfying present appearances and ancient responsibilities...
Carpets. Most famed Persian rug is "The Emperor's Hunting Carpet," woven in the 16th century reign of Tahmasp Shah who was to Persian art as was Louis XIV to French. A border string of clear gold cartouches separates the ruby field from the main border. Vines rise in colliding spirals of great blossoms, leaves, tendrils. Wild animals fight. Shah Abbas the Great presented it to Russia about 1600, Tsar Peter the Great to Habsburg Leopold...