Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chattering gaily, the crowds trooped out of the ornate Excelsior Palace Hotel at the Lido last week, and hurried, depending on their circumstances, to their private launches or to the grimy vaporetto to Venice. After four weeks of showings the Second International Motion Picture Exposition was over...
...TIME, Aug. 27), won none of them. Prize for the most entertaining film went to Frank Capra's It Happened One Night. Douglas Fairbanks' British-made Private Life of Don Juan was voted the best world première. For giving the largest presentation of films, the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America got a loving cup. Acclaimed as the world's best cinema performers were Katharine Hepburn and Wallace Beery. They got gold medals. So did Mickey Mouse...
...photographs of the mountain itself and to assist in the map-making, sponsored by the Geological Society of America. Over two hundred photographs were taken from the plane which was called in from Juneau four times during the course of the summer. Twenty-five hundred feet of full-sized motion picture film was also taken, both of the ascent of the mountain and the several serial flights
Despite the modern trend away from acting to clothes horse and show girl, three real actors plus a worthwhile play make an unbeatable combination of M. G. M.'s production of the "Barrett's of Wimpole Street." The three stars are all winners of the greatest honor in motion pictures--the Annual Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences--and the stage play had a three year run. Frederick March and Norma Shearer, who played together in "Smilin Through," are the lovers Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. Miss Shearer's emotional depths build up the play considerably...
...Dining Room and the Rotunda, classes have had their French, German and Latin tables where men could converse during meals in the particular language in which they were interested. The Large Dining Room was the scene of last year's Freshman entertainment, Freshman Smoker and Jubilee. Piano recitals and motion picture shows were given in the downstairs living room. In the upstairs living room, at the far end of the hall, a series of informal talks by prominent professors on topics of current interest sponsored by last year's Union Committee. It was in this room that Harvard's famous...