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...motion picture talent seekers sent photographic units to 37 universities and more than 15,000 men reported to attempt to qualify for screen honors...
...Electric & Mfg. Co., and Dr. Max A. Goldstein, director of Central Institute for the Deaf, St. Louis. In principle it is like the oscillograph used in every high-school physics class for experiments on sound. Noises thrown against a diaphragm causes a light to throw a shadow against a screen. The same sound always causes the same shadow. The Legg-Goldstein machine is a highly efficient oscillograph...
Vita Glass and Corning Glass are true glasses. Celo-O-Glass is composed of wire-mesh screen filled with an apparently celluloidinous material. Flex-O-Glass is a thin, fairly loosely woven cloth treated with a paraffin-like substance...
...slaughter must rise accordingly. The cinema is cheaper. Therefore the Mexican morale breaks down to the extent of deserting the bull fights for the inexpensive but amusing movies. The national hero is transformed from the person of the most efficient bull artist to that of the reigning screen star, be it man, woman, child or horse. For those who dance must pay the piper, quoth the penurious Juan, and bathing beauties cost less than bulls...
...knee of Herr Freud. Why does nice Mr. Hero want to slit his wife's throat? Follow the dream and find out. Many a Freudian symbol will probably elude the spectator while a scrupulously scientific fantasy of the less definitely conscious mind is revealed on the screen. But the tense climax, the amazing photography cannot escape notice or fail of effect. When the psychoanalyst explains to the patient the cause of his wanting to knife his wife, the fixation is removed, her life saved. Rarely has science so artfully impregnated the fantastic...