Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wolf of Wall Street. Suspecting, probably correctly, that film audiences may not know much about the technique of the stockmarket, Paramount has kept as simple as possible this story about the big trader who is a sucker in love. The Wolf explains stratagems to his partners with a blackboard and pointer in a way that can be understood by anyone who can cut out a paper doll. That this will bore persons familiar with Wall Street methods is unlikely, however, for Mrs. Wolf's infidelities are effectively and seductively acted by Olga Baclanova. Best shot : Miss Baclanova biting...
Eleven Harvard Clubs, scattered from Pasadena to Boston and Utica to Dallas, Texas, have arranged for showings of the Harvard Film, which has just been completed by the Harvard Film Foundation, it was announced yesterday by H. C. Clark '11, Alumni Secretary. The picture received its first showing in tentative form before the directors of the Alumni Association at their meeting last month and its second before the Harvard Club of Buffalo last Tuesday, where it was enthusiastically received. The movie consists of three reels of glimpses of Harvard activities, people, and buildings, and takes about 40 minutes to show...
...sent Richard to military school and then to Trinity College at Hartford, Conn. On vacations he played small roles in stock with his mother. Some film people, on location near the Connecticut town where he was working as a clerk, took him to California when they left. His part in D. W. Griffith's Broken Blos soms made him famous...
...Robert Williams, carpenter, said he had killed an Irish housemaid in Hyde Park because he had been seized with an epileptic fit during which he saw the face of Lon Chaney, famed U. S. cinemactor. On the day before the killing, Carpenter Williams said he had viewed the film, London After Midnight, featuring Mr. Chaney...
...Conrad has gone too. Blank spaces must be left for the honor: Ronald Colman, adventurer, loves Lily Damita, wife of another, but tries to preserve her ____; besides, he has sworn on his ______ to restore a certain Rajah to his throne. Even superb photography cannot make more than a routine film out of this brooding but somehow unreal and tormented story. Best shot: Capt. Jorgensen blowing up the ammunition ship...