Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...African Intrigue, dealing with the Agadir incident of 1911. Producer Towne will stress his stories rather than his stars, hopes for big names but will insist on actors to suit his roles. His idol at the moment is George Bernard Shaw, who, after refusing for years to let the cinema tinker with his plays, got Pygmalion made straight into a smash hit. Says Gene Towne: "It took an old guy with a beard to make bums...
...last week most of Hollywood's producers had laid before U. S. exhibitors a tempting menu of cinema fare for the 1 939-40 season (beginning about Aug. 31). Some entrees...
...Francisco Golden Gate Fair: Mrs. Philip Knight Wrigley in a $5,000 trailer; egg-bald Cinema Comedian Guy Kibbee; Collier's Editor William Ludlow Chenery; one J. J. Jeejeeboy...
...data of Dada. After graduate work in art and archeology, he taught at Vassar, Harvard, Princeton, and launched at Wellesley in 1926 an ambitious course in modern art. It involved "driving a seven-or eight-wheeled chariot," handling not only modern sculpture and painting but architecture, industrial art, cinema, photography and whatever music and literature came in handy. Its purpose: "to equip people to face contemporary civilization." This course led Professor Sachs to recommend him to Mr. Goodyear. It was the subject matter of this course, in a new incarnation, which visitors last week saw displayed in the Museum...
Pictures have a longer tradition as Art than machine-tooling or the cinema. The 186,000 visitors to the Museum during its first year came to see pictures, and pictures for a long time made up the Museum's most elaborate and popular exhibitions. Among them...