Word: cinemen
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...attacked them singlehanded. He mistook the sails of a windmill for threatening giants, charged into them to his own near- destruction. After him on muleback plodded a faithful red-faced squire, but with all his remonstrating he had no more control over his crack-brained sire than did the cinemen trying to film the proceedings. The red-faced squire was old George Robey, famed British comedian, playing the part of Sancho Panza, and the rickety don was the great Feeder Ivanovitch Chaliapin, brass-lunged old Russian basso...
...much care. Negro intelligentsiacs agree with the whites ? that Authoress Peterkin writes accurately, vividly of the Gullah Negroes. Equally vivid, Bright Skin gives a broader picture of Gullah life than Scarlet Sister Mary, Though Ethel Barrymore made no stage success of Scarlet Sister Mary, this time cinemen are reported to be dickering for the rights already...
...Sunday might, as a "common informer," sue the proprietor, collect informer's money. The law has never been repealed. When a Miss Millie Orpen discovered this state of affairs, she pounced upon the Sunday-showing Capitol Theatre (cinema) in London with a suit. Last week to all cinemen's dismay, a court awarded Miss Orpen $15,000. But the court was dismayed too. It also awarded the Capitol a stay of execution. Planned were appeal and repeal...
...weapon which the motor men were nearly agreed to use was the one which French and German cinemen have found effective: the import quota. Remained only to hit upon a figure which would be high enough not to hurt intra-European trade yet low enough to hamper...
...President Hoover last week signed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. To write the necessary 13 brief words he used six gold pens, which he presented to the conferees on the bill: Senators Smoot, Watson, Shortridge, and Congressmen Hawley, Treadway, Bacharach. During the ceremony, from which photographers, newsgatherers and cinemen were excluded, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, four of the conferees, Collector of Customs Francis X. A. Eble and the President's three private secretaries, stood by at solemn attention...