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Word: films (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chiefly at fault. Although the photography is excellent, too great an emphasis on it makes the action interminably slow. At times the audience is treated to something like a travelogue of the Nile region in the midst of an adventure story. The very half-hearted attempts to make the film a character study also help in hindering the force of the story. One redeeming feature, however, is the acting. Ralph Richardson and C. Aubrey Smith both turn in splendid performances. But their efforts, though valiant, fail to stifle at the University this weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

...bank examiner for 18 months, a bank president for three years (youngest in the U. S., at 25). For 20 months he built ships for Bethlehem Steel and for an Assistant Secretary of the Navy named Franklin Roosevelt. For two years, nine months he was president of the Film Booking Offices of America, for five months chairman of Keith-Albee-Orpheum, for six weeks special counsel to First National Pictures, for twelve weeks reorganizer of RCA, for 74 days special adviser to Paramount Pictures. Wherever he was, he was also Joe Kennedy, the Wall Street speculator, who once said: "Anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: London Legman | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...lousy," Artist Nichols is belligerent in refusing to "pick out the ugly things-strikes, droughts, ugly alleys and paint them." Subjects he prefers are the prairie landscapes of his youth, usually snowed under. These famed smooth snow effects Artist Nichols gets by laying on his oils in a thin film with watercolor brushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Resident Apostle | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...shadows spread across the Atlantic last week faster than the Clipper plane that brought home Cinemastars Tyrone Power and his wife,Annabella. At Binghamton, N. Y., Dr. Ernst Schwarz, German-born president of Agfa Ansco Corp. (cameras, film), got his U. S. citizenship papers and quickly told the newspapers about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shadows | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Divorced. Ken Maynard, 44, slick-haired film cowboy, and Mary Leper Maynard, 40, originator of Hollywood's drunk service; in Hollywood. Grounds: incompatibility. Her discreet, ginger-ale drinking "Cavaliers" will, for a fee, accompany a client on an alcoholic evening, insure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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