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...contain the mummies of two Egyptian kings, for the outer door has two cartouches. Khu-n-aten, Tut's father-in-law, may have held the throne jointly and have been buried with him. The chief problem of the investigators is to keep the material reasonably intact. The golden screen is in momentary danger of crumbling to dust. It has to be reinforced with waxed linen, which puts a dingy gloom on the brilliance of four millenniums...
Anna Christie. The fundamental difference in the technique of the screen and of the stage was never more pertinently displayed than in the two productions of Eugene O'Neill's drama. The legitimate version was a burning torch to show other playwrights their way along the indistinct path of progress. The motion picture is?simply another motion picture. The solution seems to lie in the psychological shortcomings of cinema narration. The mind is an inscrutable phenomenon at best. Pantomime does not suffice to render it transparent...
This Freedom. Recalling William Fox's excellent screen translation of If Winter Comes, one is induced to hope for similar treatment of the later novel by A. S. M. Hutchinson. Mr. Fox was unhappily hanicapped. The novel is largely theoretical. It conducts a polemic on the respective values for women of children or a career. Mr. Hutchinson loves children. He does it with literary conviction. His characters' reactions are largely psychological and therefore too often static on the screen...
...regard to sound which would be considered,--its being formed, transmitted, received by the ear, and the operations of the brain,--and after making several remarks about its formation and transmission, made use of a remarkable instrument, which in the dark room threw a dot of light on the screen. By means of revolving mirrors, this point of light was made to sweep continuously across the screen, forming a continuous line. By a very complicated mechanism, this ray of light was acted upon by a diaphragm at the funnel end of a large horn in such a way that whenever...
...Faith. When the movies go into the pulpit they usually lack conviction. From screen pulpits around the country this picture will attempt to preach its sermon of love and regeneration in a Mission of the slums. Seeking the cold ice of logic, it attacks its prob-lem with snowballs dripping slush...