Word: tautly
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SILENCE-The old crook contrivances rearranged to make a taut evening. H. B. Warner is the man who escapes the electric chair...
...blue serge, with crisp yachting cap tilted to starboard?waved his hand. Chatting with pressmen, he stroked his goatee?a preposterous tuft no bigger than a barnacle?responded wittily to their sallies, screwing up his eyes when the sun shone against his face?a very brown face, drawn taut with the whip of sea-salt. "What good is the Cup to America when you have nothing to put in it?" asked he. "I understand the only thing you have left to put in it would burn the bottom...
...process, in brief, is as follows: The photographic film (it can be used wet, direct from the developing bath) is held taut and curved in the form of a cylinder, like an old-fashioned phonograph record. Light, from an ordinary automobile lamp, is passed through a lens and concentrated in a small spot at one corner of the film. At the receiving station a blank film is formed into a similar cylinder. By a device known as a synchronizer, the cylinders at both ends are started simultaneously and turned at the same rate of speed. The light beam travels...
...condemns his former flame to be hanged. She escapes to America. An index of the whole picture is the final scene when the lord, now in prison, is married in his cell to his betrothed, filling it almost entirely with her bridal attire. Victor Seastrom has directed with the taut technique of Scandinavia. The Stranger. Hope for the cinema lies in a photoplay like this adaptation of John Galsworthy's story, The First and the Last. It is a sensitive and sensible study of the regeneration wrought in each other by two London outcasts, with only a single quotation...
...rather as a raconteur with a dash of Hazlitt and Lamb, than as a protagonist of conservatism and taut galluses that Mr. Lyons is interesting. "The Merry Wait" is one of the most finished of the stories, and the songs the Wait sings to spread Christmas cheer deserve framing or something better. This...