Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once in a great while a picture is photographed with exciting originality. Subordinating plot and characterization, it unrolls before an untiring andionce, which never ceases to admire the ingenious technique, artistic angles, and gradations in color of black and white film...
...recognized as the best Ski-meister in the Alps, Hannes Schneider was hired as leading man in the German Film The Wonders of Skiing. The picture popularized skiing in Central Europe, made Hannes Schneider grand wizard of all Europe's ski wizards. Back in St. Anton, he opened his Arlberg school. First month he had 100 pupils. The next month he had 200. The St. Anton natives he had taught free were useful to Skimeister Schneider. He hired them as associate professors. By 1925, Hannes Schneider's Arlberg Ski School was winter headquarters for most of Europe...
...little. There still romps the sleek, cocky star fullback, who breaks the small-town girl's heart, and the second-team "regular fellow," who runs wild in the final game to carry off both the victory and the same home town girl. In the middle of this very long film the producers showed a shallow streak of guilty conscience in the person of a meek professor, who objects to his small college vying for the Rose Bowl bid on the grounds that it will attract too much publicity of the wrong kind. It is not strange that the football players...
Among the witnesses of the ceremony were 90-year-old Henry M. Rogers '62, eldest living graduate of the University, and John T. Murray '99, professor of English, who assisted as technical literary advisor in the production of the film, "Romeo and Juliet...
Describing the gibbon, Mr. Coolidge said: "Many will remember 'Bimbo' the gibbon that made a name for himself in the film 'Chang'. Gibbons stand about three feet high and weigh about twelve pounds. The gibbon is covered with a furry coat that may vary in color from black, with white markings, to light tan or silver. . . . They have a flattened face with a human looking nose. The scientific name for the gibbon is 'Bylobates', which means treewalker. It is particularly appropriate as they swing through the trees by means of their long arms at a remarkable speed. They...