Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...included Twentieth Century as one of the trio. I think Columbia would rather substitute Lady for a Day for the John Barrymore picture...
Twentieth Century was not even a good grosser. Even Columbia's luck for taking slipping stars and rebuilding them couldn't affect Barrymore's box office ability. Barrymore may remain a starring figure, but as far as the box office is concerned, he has never proved the sensation most people think they believe...
Jealousy (Columbia). To a familiar subject this picture adds only a few superficial footnotes. A prize-fighter (George Murphy) meditates dubiously the relation between his fiancée (Nancy Carroll) and her employer. After he marries her and goes broke, the doll-faced wife gets a new job from the old employer, whose identity she conceals from her husband. The prize-fighter discovers the two together just after they have been viewing samples of costume jewelry. In a scuffle the employer is killed. The prize-fighter wanders off in a daze while his wife is tried and convicted of murder...
...many of those infected as could be induced to apply for treatment. Commissioner Parran wrote and lectured on the subject whenever he had the opportunity. Such an opportunity was presented to him last week in the form of 15 minutes broadcasting time scheduled over 60 stations of the Columbia Broadcasting System...
...hear Dr. Parran on "Public Health Needs." Instead they got 15 minutes of orchestra music. Next day a few of them learned why. Dr. Parran had prepared a talk on syphilis. Infantile paralysis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and cancer are diseases which broadcasters frequently discuss over the radio but Columbia Broadcasting drew the line at Dr. Parran's subject. Nonetheless, he appeared at CBS's Manhattan studio to tell the nation about syphilis. Would he alter his prepared text to conform with what the company considered good public taste? Indeed he would not. Thereupon CBS refused him a microphone. Next...