Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every now and then a cinema comes from across the sea to break up the monotony of a steady fare of Hollywood banalities, which restores our faith and interest in motion pictures. Such a picture is "The Blue Light" now playing at the Fine Arts Theatre, the work of Fraulein Leni Riefenstahl, now much in the public eye because of her intimate friendship with Der Fuehrer...
Professor Mather explained the value of the films as a method of education and stated that the new enterprise attempted to improve the motion picture industry through constructive progress rather than by destructive boycott. Two short features, one in the field of geology, prepared by Professor Mather, and the other dealing with music, were presented on the program...
...Philadelphia, Denis Cardinal Dougherty last week said: "Cardinal Mundelein's views are not obligatory on other bishops. . . . Unless the Holy See orders otherwise, the boycott on motion picture theatres will continue in this diocese...
Last week, in throwing out the municipal motion to dismiss the Missouri Public Service suit, U. S. District Judge Albert L. Reeves declared: "It must be ruled that the Administrator of Public Works has no Constitutional authority to aid the defendants [i.e. Concordia] in the construction of the project. And if it were intended by Congress to promote that character of construction work under the Industrial Recovery Act, then such purpose impinges upon Constitutional inhibitions and is invalid...
...NIGHT OF LOVE--This one misses A rating simply because of a silly title. Probably the first motion picture to bring opera to the screen without losing its effectiveness and still retain the average movie-goer's interest. Grace Moore in splendid voice. (Tullio Carminati Lyle Talbot...