Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There has been a tendency among certain authors to produce plays and novels with a particular view toward their ultimate adoption as material for motion picture production. Mr. Gilkyson's novel unquestionably has the situation and characters most suitable for use in scenario form. The Freemonts are the people concerned. Martin Freemont is a successful young lawer about to begin a political career which is to see him chosen as the Republican candidate for Congress. His wife is the daughter, oddly enough, of a woman whose selection by the Democratic party as candidate to oppose Martin Freemont complicates the novelist...
...Lowell, who has long been an advocate of government censorship, was invited to serve as one of the three President's representatives on the motion picture NRA code authority, "in order to observe the operations of the engagement of the industry itself to comply with its own rules of censorship of improper pictures and dialogue...
...Twain" by Lennox Robinson, which is to be presented at Brattle Hall December 12 and 13. A graduate of Cambridge University and an American dramatic correspondent for the London Observer, Mr. Cooke is making studies for a book on the contemporary American drama. A book of his on motion pictures is at the present time in the hands of the publishers...
When the Crimson team goes on the field for the crucial Yale game tomorrow it will at least have the best wishes of the Boswell Sisters, famous stars of stage, motion pictures, and radio, who are now appearing at the Metropolitan Theater. "I want to wish Harvard the best of luck in the game tomorrow, and I sure hope you have a good game," said the dark and vivacious Miss Connie Boswell, when interviewed last night by a CRIMSON reporter. Her two charming sisters added their wishes to those of their sister. "I haven't seen a game...
...producers of the modern motion picture and the results of their labor, the much advertised 'talkies,' are practically illiterate," said Philip Merivale, now playing at the Colonial Theatre in Boston, in a CRIMSON interview last night. "They are in the hands of the wrong people; people whose object is money, not art. These people who produce motion pictures take no delight in their work, they have not the least semblance of an aesthetic sense about them. The actors and actresses themselves are little better. They either have no real ability at all, or are well-known stage people who have...