Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were some labor-union leaders to be lunched and golfed with; two bridges between Staten Island and New Jersey to open formally; a clemency plea from two convicted murderers to consider. There was an inaccurate "shot" in a Prohibition film to denounce and have omitted. Then there was Mrs. Smith's departure for Houston, the first time in a long time that Alfred Emanuel Smith had been separated from his wife for any great length of time. So Alfred Emanuel Smith had plenty to think about last week besides politics...
...Prohibition film matter was settled satisfactorily when the promoters of the film admitted their fault and agreed to make a correction. It was a film called Deliverance, a moral romance meant to advertise among Y. M. C. A. men the stirring statistics of Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist and Dry propagandist. The script had called for a picture of Governor Smith signing a bill. The producer had clipped a newsreel "shot" of Governor Smith signing a tax-reduction bill and then implied by subtitles that the bill shown was the repealer to New York's Prohibition enforcement...
Admission to cinema entertainment in the U. S. varies between $3.30 and lof4 depending on the age of the film and the amount of rococo in the theatre. Whatever the price, those who pay may well feel the need of a chart...
Hearst now has 24 newspapers, ten magazines, eight feature, news and film services, also the Cosmopolitan Book Corp. Indeed, there is no danger of the wolf growling at Hearst's door. Good Housekeeping alone is capable of buttering Hearst's bread and of satisfying his large passion for antiques. He may be old (65), but he is not yet ready to get out of journalism. Rather, he is trimming his properties, consolidating them, fertilizing the hardy ones, weeding out the weak ones; so that a banker can look at them and say: "They are a sound unit...
...Certain Young Man. Made two years ago, this film has just been released from cold storage. Ramon Novarro starts out with a monocle, a mustache, a high hat, a wife (Renee Adoree). In short, he is a smart Englishman. For the love of a U. S. girl (Marceline Day) he throws away the above accoutrements and woos her in the accepted manly fashion. The film should have remained in cold storage...