Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three months ago, as chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard signed a petition to President Roosevelt asking that the cinema code include restrictions on block booking. President Roosevelt signed the code without such restrictions and appointed Dr. Lowell. Eddie Cantor and Marie Dressier as Government representatives to the Code Authority. Last week Dr. Lowell refused the appointment. His reasons, explained in letters to General Johnson, showed a remarkably sound knowledge of the cinema industry...
...dropped down from a 5-ft. perch (see cut, p. 18), as he got around on roller skates, as he picked out familiar objects from a pile of hells, pencils, spoons and other miscellany-all the while gibbling &; gabbling with his august audience. Johnny has appeared in motion pictures displayed to psychologists in Chicago last autumn (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week's was his first personal appearance before a large audience. Like every smart entertainer, Johnny had a less brilliant but by no means dull, companion in his "act," his twin brother Jimmy. Precocious Johnny and normal Jimmy...
...valley came shocking news that "that most fundamental constant" is apparently a variable. Nineteenth Century theorists supposed that light was propagated through space by an all-pervading ether. The late great Albert Abraham Michelson, first U. S. Nobel Prizewinner in Science, reasoned that if this ether existed, then the motion of the earth through it should affect the velocity of light. In 1887 he and Edward W. Morley rigged up an interferometer, raced two beams of light against each other, one parallel to the earth's motion, the other perpendicular. The two beams arrived at their common destination...
...department of Economics, who spoke concerning the suggested reduction of expenditures in his department, "On first consideration, it seemed to me that the Tutorial System was of so great importance that any reduction would be fantastic. After thinking the matter over, however, I realize that there is much waste motion in the System's operation, which it would be desirable to eliminate...
...Metropolitan would sometime provide its public with a fairly presentable stage show. Those who have given up hope will not be disappointed this week. In regard to its movies, the Met has been somewhat more fortunate than with its vaudeville, for the very good reason that there are more motion pictures than stage shows from which to pick. The laws of probability thus render it inevitable that a mediocre movie occasionally emerges. "Sitting Pretty" is the offering this week; it embowers that prince among men, Jack Oakie...