Word: background
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Magyar melodies are well recorded. Manufactured for the U. S. box office and released through Paramount, it tells about a middle-class girl who sacrifices herself for an impoverished and roguish nobleman because she respects his class. Stock characters of continental drama photographed with fine craftsmanship against their native background seem no more credible than in Hollywood pictures where this background has been artificially reproduced...
With the foreign protests as their background, tariff developments of the week were...
...turns the wheels. The engineer has two sons. One of them is killed. Lon Chaney, driving the train carrying the body to Chicago, gets into a fight with his other son, who happens to be his fireman. While they are milling around the train is wrecked. Later there are backgrounds offering great chances for photography-the engine shops, a Mississippi flood-but they are presented so conveniently that their importance leaks out of the picture. Chaney redeems himself bringing a Red Cross train over tracks covered with water to a flooded town. There is no dialog but plenty of noise...
Jencic, gigantic, untidy prototype of all Slav immigrants in the U. S., lives in fat little Mrs. Posilipo's lodging house and works in a bakery. So does handsome Teena, representing the Latins. Her lips and dress are red. Her eyes and teeth flash against the swarthy background of her skin. Jencic, in a big, slow, dumb, serf-like way, wants her. Because the girls at the bakery dared her to, she took Jencic's hand one day and told him she liked him. When he humbly tries to follow this up, she turns on him angrily with...
...Corp. absorbed American Marconi, Mr. Sarnoff, the Commercial Manager, retained his position. He became General Manager in 1921, Vice President in 1922. Now he is a world figure. While his great and good friend, Owen D. Young, was formulating the famed Young Plan in Paris, he, conscientiously in the background, gave potent...