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...their experiments and making their demonstrations of scientific materials, and we expect also to depict the subjects about which they are talking. The studio and recording machines have been so arranged that, although the professor may gradually disappear, his voice continues, describing the scenes which replace him on the screen. The silent films of the Foundation have met with such splendid response whenever shown at the Harvard clubs that we are certain these films, affording intellectual content in varied fields and enlivened by the leading personalities of the University, will prove of great interest to Harvard men everywhere...
...passing months have found "The Trial of Mary Dugan" to be fairly sound melodrama in the modern fashion. Successful on the legitimate stage, its chorus girl heroics modified by the prevalent taste for detective fiction have been impressed into celluloid to emerge upon the screen in almost recognizable form. This evening, as a part of its "Review Week" program, the University Theater offers a last opportunity to see the loving brother triumphant, the noble innocent acquitted, and the guilty confounded in one dramatic toss of the knife. The popularity of the screen version lies in an ingenious plot, ably unravelled...
...earnings. He has never bitten anybody. When, in front of the camera, he springs at a villain, he somehow avoids scratching with his big teeth the throat which he clamps between his jaws with an appearance of ferocity. Despite his unfailing skill at apprehending the villain on the screen, Rin Tin Tin, asleep a few feet away, offered no resistance when robbers burgled Duncan's home last year. He will not take food from anyone but Duncan who talks to him as though he were an intelligent human being. Duncan says "Get mad," "Act Scared," "Pay no attention" in pantomime...
...from Blankley's (Warner). By the same mental process which makes even the feeblest joke sound funny when whispered in church, the sight of a tragedian and screen romanticist as eminent as John Barrymore trying, at a dinner party, to cut a rubber squab which squirts out gravy and squeaks, is more hilarious than the same scene would be if a recognized clowner were playing it. But there are other reasons why The Man from Blankley's is unusual comedy. Its plot concerns an inebriated lord who, due to his condition and the heavy fog, arrives...
...comes to Movieland, falls in love with one of its minor but typical stars, artificial, Kleig-eyed, burntout; after her death he fades from the picture. Movieland is ruled by Director Emerson, absolute autocrat; its queen is Carlotta Bray, perennial virgin lover, who gives herself to millions on the screen, to none in the flesh, and is finally raped to death by fat Comedian Carlos Wilh (reminiscent of Comedian Fatty Arbuckle). Movieland is crude, violent, highly colored: a succession of journalistic pieces rather than a connected narrative...