Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another Mickey Mouse fan is Ireland's venerable sage "AE" (George Russell), who once gravely reviewed these hilarious animated cartoons in his august (now defunct) review The Irish Statesman. In Berlin last week a solemn German censor sat down to view that grand old strip of celluloid Mickey Mouse in the Trenches. Afterward, still owl-solemn, he ruled as follows: "The wearing of German military helmets by an army of cats which oppose a militia of mice is offensive to national dignity. Permission to exhibit this production in Germany is refused...
...passing months have found "The Trial of Mary Dugan" to be fairly sound melodrama in the modern fashion. Successful on the legitimate stage, its chorus girl heroics modified by the prevalent taste for detective fiction have been impressed into celluloid to emerge upon the screen in almost recognizable form. This evening, as a part of its "Review Week" program, the University Theater offers a last opportunity to see the loving brother triumphant, the noble innocent acquitted, and the guilty confounded in one dramatic toss of the knife. The popularity of the screen version lies in an ingenious plot, ably unravelled...
...object. He has made his picture a gallery of churchmen and a saint. It is a succession of strong eye-and-thought-compelling features with intermittently the reaction to them of Joan's remarkable visage. Faces at all angles and distances, but usually as close-ups, character sketches of celluloid. Through the characterizations, medieval in their sincere brutality, rather than in setting a la Hollywood, is the picture placed and dated...
...Societe des Bains de Mer de Monaco (Sea Baths Society of Monaco), better known as the Monte Carlo gambling casino syndicate, has its own currency- round and oval celluloid chips (jetons) of various colors and denominations which the Casino sells for cash, to be used at the gaming tables and afterward redeemed for cash. Although strictly forbidden as legal tender outside the Casino, almost anyone nearby who frequents the Casino will accept them as such...
Last week Vienna police heard that a comb manufacturer in the suburb of Meidling had a curious and profitable order for 20,000 round celluloid chips. Too familiar were they with Vienna's fantastic deviltries to ignore such a scent. They found the little celluloid manufacturer patiently, innocently producing replica after replica of the Monte Carlo Casino's 100-franc chips. Anxiously the comb-maker regarded his visitors. When they inquired about the order, he spoke tremblingly of one Simon Rappaport, Polish merchant from Dombrowa...