Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME [April 10], I noted that somebody from Omaha writes about the "whiskerino" event they are having there for the opening of the film Union Pacific, and the writer's anxiety for barbers and companies manufacturing shaving and hair-cutting accessories...
...controlled Police Bureau, Dr. Hsi Shih-tai, was assassinated as he walked in the street with his wife. This was the 17th political murder in Shanghai since January 1. In Tientsin the Chinese manager of the Japanese-owned Federal Reserve Bank was shot while watching others shot in the film Gunga Din. In Kaifeng, Chinese mercenary troops hired by the Japanese mutinied and murdered four puppet officials. All Japanese reports said: "Apparently something happened in Kaifeng...
Paul Strand, noted photographer, will speak on "The Modern Film" tonight at 7:45 and 9:45 o'clock is Cautabridgia Hall, under the auspices of the Helyoke Book Shop...
...talk will accompany the showing of four films: "Heart of Spain"; "China Strikes Park"; "People of the Cumberland"; and "Daydreams" a 1926 British film featuring Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester...
...amazingly daring choice of plot in these days of Hays, "Wuthering Heights" is unusually good. Even with Emily Bronte's subtle interweaving of incest here reduced to grim hints that flicker like summer lightning from afar, the film has caught that quality in the story that surpasses time or place. Tragedy, stark as the Yorkshire moors that are its scene, is the theme of "Wuthering Heights"; and not a punch has been pulled in Goldwyn's cinema version of this dank offshoot of nineteenth-century Romanticism. Especially convincing in the early scenes, Merle Oberon and Lawrence Olivier run the full...