Word: dumbness
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...Dummy", feature picture at the Metropolitan this week, will probably be pretty tiresome for you. It opens up the practically untouched field of child kidnapping. The estranged parents are brought together when little Mickey Bennett rescues their fair-haired daughter, letting himself be kidnapped as the deaf and dumb son of a millionaire...
...Each in her gilded coach, two empresses followed in slow procession, the first, Dowager Empress Marie, to be greeted with huzzahs of adoration; and the second, Alexandra, with a sudden silence, variously interpreted. Baroness Buxhoeveden, friend and lady-in-waiting to the last empress, says the crowds were struck dumb with holy awe. But Princess Radziwill, member of the St. Petersburg aristocracy Alexandra failed to please, calls the dumbness "a solemn, ominous silence . . . majestic absence of emotion on the part of the multitude...
Caught in the Fog (talkie) is an uneasy and mildly sarcastic attempt to parody Crook Cinema which, in various disguises, has constituted nearly half of the recent output of Hollywood. Lots of crooks, including May McAvoy, a lady crook, sometimes dumb, sometimes stabbing into speech, come through Florida fog to a deserted houseboat on which the mother of a millionaire's son has left a pearl necklace worth $200,000 in cinema money. Boob detectives supply most of the comedy and Conrad Nagel's voice the best vocal sequences of a gentle melodrama which is parody only...
...which Mr. Crispin cuts with a surgical scalpel the likeness of an ass. The American is subjected to mental torture. But just as Mr. Crispin, drawing on a surgeon's blouse, is about to consummate his fiendish plans for the Englishman, the American and the girl, the three dumb Japs, squealing laughter from tongueless mouths, have their own revenge. This is the last scene and is the most thrilling in a season which has tried very hard to provide thrills. Edward G. Robinson (Mr. Crispin) and his Garrick Players did well...
...Iowa, to debate issues at Des Moines, where he was scheduled to speak on Nov. 1. Farmer Livingston was the man who heckled Nominee Curtis during his speech at Spencer, Iowa, in September; the man to whom Nominee Curtis finally and dangerously retorted: "I guess you're too damn dumb to understand." Farmer Livingston requested a public apology...