31. It seems odd that a diva would get herself involved in a silent movie, but Farrar was a great coup for DeMille. 32. Music was often played on the sets of silent movies, but Dreyer allowed none, nor did he want musical accompaniment to the finished film. 33. Noni is a genuine silent movie actress. 34. One of his first jobs was playing the accompaniment for silent movies, but he soon graduated to nightclubs. 35. Police on Saturday arrested James Leslie Van Sickle, a projectionist at the silent movie house, a one-time contract paramedic, one-time accountant and former Marine. 36. Sent to a Jesuit school as a boy, he later studied to be an engineer before drifting to silent movies as a title-card designer. 37. So I called a few people who I knew had money and asked them how they felt about investing in a silent movie theater. 38. Some who came on motorcycles or in cars without radios were disappointed to find that they were watching a silent movie. 39. So Passavanti found work as a projectionist in a Bronx silent movie theater and put his dreams on ice. 40. Some silent movies had scores written for them, but for many, a pianist or an organist composed music on the spot. |