Word: excerpts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Excerpt (Writer Sinclair quoting Producer Fox): " 'A lady called on me and said she was Mrs. Rosika Schwimmer, and she asked me the following questions: ''How would you like to have your name on the front page of every newspaper of the world? How would you like to have your name discussed at every dinner table? How would you like to be the most talked-of man in the history of the world? How would you like to sell twenty times more pictures than you do now? ... I have a plan. I have chartered a boat...
...Camera Man Edouard Tisse were equally responsible-is superb. Critics, esthetes and Socialist Upton Sinclair, who was last week out for Governor of California on a Democratic ticket, have been babbling about Eisenstein's Mexican picture for the last two and one-half years. Since this excerpt from it, which the producers expect to follow with two more feature length pictures and a series of short travelogs, is unsatisfactory, the future of Eisenstein's monster is likely to be as controversial as its past. In 1931 Paramount hired Director Eisenstein, whose Potemkin and Ten Days That Shook...
...Manhattan, the New York Sun celebrated its centenary (see p. 24) by reproducing its first issue. Excerpt from Vol. 1, No. 1 page i (Sept...
...take exception to your footnote in which you quote an excerpt from the Senator's statement during the Broussard-Overton senatorial investigation in which he said: ''Since the counsel wants to know, we collected for Tin-States when they were with us, and for the Progress [Huey Long's own slandering weekly] when they were with us. Yes, sir, we help our friends when they are with...
...President may suspend or revoke any such license . . . for violations of the terms or conditions thereof . . ."-excerpt from the licensing clause of the National Industrial Recovery Act. "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech or of the Press . . ."-1st Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. A newspaper publishers' committee marched to Washington last week to thresh out with Recovery Administrator Johnson the contradiction which, they insisted, lay between the foregoing clauses and stood" in the way of adoption of a code by newspapers. The committeemen. representing the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, were Howard Davis...