Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unusual glut of expensive motion pictures thrust forth by Hollywood in recent weeks,* cinemaudiences probably have the California tax collector to thank. For all film, raw or exposed, on Hollywood shelves when the assessors make their annual visits on March's first Monday, the studios are taxed. The way to beat the tax is to empty the shelves. When the assessors made their rounds this week, most cupboards were bare. But at luckless Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the vast amount of film necessary for Norma Shearer's Marie Antoinette was still in stock, the picture only half completed...
...Sally, Irene, and Mary," now at the Metropolitan, Alice Faye and Tony Martin rub noses, Fred Allen climbs a lamp post, Joan Davis goes into unbelievable contortions while tap dancing, and Jimmy Durante, back in films with his cigar and his proboscis, does his traditional "Again-You Turn-a" dance. A hodge-podge of the craziest situations Director William Seiter could throw together, the film makes no sense whatever; but it does succeed in being mildly amusing and sometimes very funny, which is all that was ever intended...
Under the auspices of the Harvard Film Society, Paul Rotha, English producer, will speak tonight on the documentary film in the New Lecture Hall. The talk will be accompanied by several of his own sound shorts...
Rotha is one of the founders of the documentary film, a movie based on the dramatization of facts similar to the "March of Time." The three films which are to be shown are, "Today We Live," "We Live in Two Worlds," and one concerning the handling of the night mail between England and Scotland...
...Herbert Ames, Canadian statesman who was the first Financial Director of the League of Nations, will speak in the Upper Common Room of the Union Monday night on. "A Week at the National Socialist Party Rally at Nuremburg," and show a sound film of the Nazi spectacle...