Word: silents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Tarzan (1918) was strong, silent Elmo Lincoln. Best-known was Olympic Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, who eventually grew too fat, after appearing in twelve of the 25 pictures (in his six most memorable ones, Maureen O'Sullivan played Jane). Three other Olympic athletes have also been Tarzans: Herman Brix, Buster Crabbe and Glenn Morris...
...fleeting moments, the cockeyed speed of the chase recalls the wonderful jet-propelled jalopies of the old silent comedies. Not half so effective as comic relief is the stock, bug-eyed mugging of William Bendix. One of the best things in the film is the shy, incredulous expressions of the Mexican extras...
There is a descendant of Charlemagne, Lucrezia Borgia, Mary Queen of Scots, William the Silent, Vladimir of Russia, Geoffrey Chaucer, Pierre de Ronsard, Diane de Poitiers, Agnes Sorel and 1,048,567 other traceable ancestors, who frequently breaks 70 on the golf links. Three years ago he donated a silver cup-La Coupe du Roi des Beiges, for a tournament at Onex, Switzerland-and last year he won the cup himself. This year he reached the quarter finals of the amateur championship in Paris. Other members of the Onex club hail Leopold III, King of the Belgians, as "a perfect...
Most of the masters of silent comedy -Chaplin, Langdon and Keaton-were clowns in the Continental tradition. Lloyd, a collateral descendant of Horatio Alger heroes, is the clown of the U.S. middle class. His pictures are warmhearted parodies of old-fashioned American manners & morals...
...York's Pioneer Club by 89 points, and Tulare watched, silent and worried. It roared alive when Bob took a lead next night. He kept in front, and Tulare went home happy and hoarse. Order of finish: Mathias (7,552 points), Mondschein (7,045), Bill Albans of North Carolina U. (6,715). Young Bob, also a crack baseball and football man who will enter Stanford next fall, had come closest yet to the A.A.U. record (7,880) set by 37-year-old Glenn Morris...