Word: goldwynism
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...Film Booking Offices of America has arranged for lectures by such prominent figures in the motion picture industry as, Jesse D. Lasky, Vice-President of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation; Adolph Zukor, President of Famous Players; William Fox, President of the Fox Film Corporation; Marcus Loew, President of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation and Harry M. Warner, President of Warner Brothers Picture Corporation...
...Film Corporation has seldom ventured into the field so completely usurped by Metro-Goldwyn and Paramount, the field of big moving picture hits. Their attempt to do so here has been successful. The fear that "What Price Glory" would be a repetition of all the war tragedies and comedies was groundless. True, it would be too much to say that the picture was original in all its details, but there was a distinct atmosphere about the film which made one set it apart...
...have already accepted invitations to lead discussions in connection with the lectures are Will Havs, President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc.; Adolph Zukor, President of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation; William Fox, President of the Fox Film Corporation; Marcus Loew, President of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation; Jesse Lasky, Vice-President of Famous Players; Harry M. Warner, President of Warner Brothers Picture Corporation; Cecil B. DeMille, of the Cecil B. DeMille Productions; Sidney R. Kent, General Manager of Famous Players; and A. H. Glannini, President of the East River National Bank of New York...
...What classic of U. S. literature has been produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...Scarlet Letter (Lillian Gish). This latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release preserves in spirit, mood, sequence, the true proportions of Hawthorne's novel. Praise for a picture can mount no higher. Hester Prynne and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale break the seventh commandment. The heavy rod of seventeenth century New England righteousness falls upon them both -upon Hester socially, upon Dimmesdale spiritually. In spite of numerous opportunities for sentimental errata, the film records truly, as the novelist saw, the inevitably tragic and ennobling consequences of their suffering. One might wish that the bravery and sacrifice of the Puritan community had been represented...