Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first offering under the heading of "The Film In Germany" the Harvard Film Society tonight presents "Legend and Fantasy: Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" in the New Lecture Hall at 8:15 o'clock...
...separate showing of "The Birth of the Nation" was given on December 14 last. Setting out to review "The Film in Germany and France 1896-1927" the first of the three programs dealing with Germany tonight includes: 1896 Primitive German films by the pioneer Skladanowsky (Reichsflilmkammer) 1909 Don Juan's Wedding, a comedy with the actor Giampietro (Reichsflilmkammer) 1912 Misunderstood, a melodrama with Germany's most popular actress, Henry Porten (Reichsflilmkammer) 1920 The Golem: one sequence only. Directed by the eminent actor Paul Wegener, who also plays the title role (Ufa) 1919 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, directed by Robert...
...This film, put out by the Johns Manville Company, shows the insulation of houses and the uses of insulation in solving other problems of heat control. It is reported to be notable for its clear exposition and demonstration of the physical principles involved and should be of popular scientific interest...
Died, Ted Healy, 41, stage & film funster who invented the disapproving "stooge"; in Los Angeles, two nights after he had been beaten up near the Hollywood Trocadero where he was celebrating the birth of a son. A coroner's autopsy found that death was caused by no thrashing, but by "acute toxic nephritis, induced by acute and chronic alcoholism...
John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, and many another in the film colony who had deposits in Los Angeles' Guaranty Building and Loan Association in 1930, find it difficult to forget the name of the Guaranty's former secretary and general manager, one Gilbert H. Beesemyer. Seven years ago, they and 24,000 other Guaranty depositors discovered that he had stolen eight million dollars from the company (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931). Embezzler Beesemyer went to San Quentin Prison for 44 years. Since then no less than 2,500 Guaranty depositors have gone to the poorhouse or the insane asylum, some...