Tag Archives: King of Kings (1927)

The Crippled Tree

Source: Han Suyin, The Crippled Tree (London: Jonathan Cape, 1965), pp. 377-379 Text: The cinema was called in Chinese the True Light Cinema. It had a brown gooey façade, and at that time it looked enormous; it had suffered, forty … Continue reading →

by Luke McKernan Posted on July 30, 2017

Posted in 1920s, China, Memoirs | Tagged Beijing, Cinemas, City Lights (1931), Han Suyin, King of Kings (1927), Music, Musicians, Seating, The Birth of a Nation (1915) | Leave a comment

Movies and Conduct

Source: ‘College senior, a girl of 22 years, of native white parentage’, quoted in Herbert Blumer, Movies and Conduct (New York: Macmillan, 1933), pp. 213-217 Text: Considerably influenced by the gospel of H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, I have … Continue reading →

by Luke McKernan Posted on March 5, 2014

Posted in 1910s, 1920s, Reports and studies, USA | Tagged A Woman of Affairs (1928), Beau Brummell (1924), Beau Geste (1926), Children, Cinemas, Clarence (1922), Crying, Fear, First impressions, Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1921), Imitation, King of Kings (1927), Monsieur Beaucaire (1924), Morality, Parents, Penrod and Sam (1923), Performers, Robin Hood (USA 1922), Serials, Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1921), The Affairs of Anatole (1921), The Ten Commandments (USA 1923), The Three Musketeers (1921), Westerns, When Knighthood was in Flower (1922), White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) | Leave a comment

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