Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...students at flying schools of Roosevelt Field and Curtiss Airport, L. I. last fortnight included: John J. McNamara, Manhattan streetcar motorman; Abraham Walter Lafferty, onetime Congressman from Oregon; Buffalo Child Long Lance, Blackfoot Indian Chief, one-time cadet in the U. S. Military Academy, lately a cinemactor (The Silent Enemy, TIME, May 26). Another pupil, one for whom the instruction was exceedingly brief (after he and his teacher had flown together for only three hours the pupil went up solo, record brevity for civilian flying), was Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 36, inventor of the artificial horizon for airplanes, youngest...
...Springer left. The door was closed. The stenographers and clerks did not hear the lock snap shut. But before Mr. Springer reached the lift the sound of angry voices came from the room. Then, in startling succession, came a fusillade of five shots. The outer office froze into silent, motionless attention. Before it was broken there was a round of five more shots, the sound of glass falling...
...degrees of Wetness. The vociferous militant Wet is represented by such Senators as Maryland's Tydings, Wisconsin's Elaine, such Congressmen as New York's LaGuardia, Michigan's Clancy. Pennsylvania's Congressman James Montgomery Beck typifies the Constitutional Wet who often subordinates his legal convictions to party loyalty. Silent Wets biding their time to strike a blow are Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth, Connecticut's Senator Bingham, Pennsylvania's Congressman Graham. New York's Senator Copeland represents the Wet from political expedience who is at heart a Dry. Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York personifies the long-time...
...movie was one of two things- pie-throwing or western. Properly and naturally cinematic, westerns have never fallen into disrepute. Although the great companies produced them only occasionally, in the manner of revivals, small independents have never stopped making them for rural consumption. This Zane Grey western was a silent, and a good one. With sound added and such photography as few westerns have had, it has the proper ingredients-the chase on horseback, pearl-handled revolvers, the kidnaped girl, the cattle-stealer. It lacks continuity but is worth the while of anyone who regrets that picture companies have turned...
When Ramon Novarro starred in silent pictures, the cultivation of his voice was merely a hobby, but one which interested him more than the work for which he was paid. Giving recitals for friends in his private theatre and singing every Sunday in the little Catholic church in Los Angeles to which he goes with his family, were not enough. When he made his last contract with M-G-M he stipulated that a certain amount of his time should be his own so that he could make concert tours. Several years ago he tried opera with a Berlin company...