Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usually, when a stage play is made into a talking picture, the result is nothing more than a photograph of what was designed for the legitimate stage. "The Criminal Code," which is now playing at the University, is distinctly an exception to this rule, for here the movie director has removed all of the elements peculiar to the stage and has adapted the plot with considerable skill to the rapidity and scope of the screen. He has not allowed himself to be confined by the picture frame of a theatre, but instead has incorporated into the sound and film...
...time of the ill-conducted Senior elections in December, it was suggested that a code of procedure be drawn up and retained by the Student Council for reference. That such a set of articles is desirable is attested to by the unnecessary postponement of the present elections from their usual date in the Reading Period until...
Thus, with what they considered irrefutable logic, argued the entire Communist contingent in the Reichstag Committee for revision of the Penal Code last week. Refusing to be convinced, the Committee voted after hot debate a resolution approving chastity for surplus females, denying that they have any "right" to maternity...
Sitting in his convalescent home at Asheville, N. C., ailing Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. fiddles familiarly with the switches of a radio receiver. As he fiddled one day this week a grin of satisfaction crossed his face. He had heard a code message from the Los Angeles headquarters of his company-Transcontinental & Western Air Inc., of which he is chief radio engineer (TIME, July 14)-travel across the U. S., relayed through 20 ground stations to the line's New York office. His company's nation-wide network, largest operated by any single airway system...
...Criminal Code (Columbia). Aside from its high value as entertainment, this is a significant picture because it is in every way better than the Manhattan stage hit, acclaimed by critics, from which it is taken. It will also provide, for those who saw the play last year, illustration of the differences between theatrical and cinema technique when each is properly handled. On the stage The Criminal Code was a parable. The misfortunes heaped on the protagonist?a boy who learns in prison how to be a criminal? were fashioned to provide a lesson. As a cinema, the realism of scenes...