Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spencer Tracy, their emotions confined largely to work and sorrow, gave performances rated by Manhattan critics as "inspired." Before last week's premiere at Manhattan's Gaiety Theatre Miss Moore primly unveiled a bronze plaque marking the scene of "the first public presentation of ... the first motion picture in which narratage was used as a method of telling a dramatic story...
Elected. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, retiring president of Harvard: to be chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, succeeding the late Dr. John Grier Hibben, president-emeritus of Princeton; in Manhattan...
...primitive themes, ranging from Negroid to Spanish. Least successful was her own composition, the "Gris-Gris Ceremonial," based on African rites of propagation. Happily it was the only one in which she joined with the Bahamans. Alone, Dancer Tamiris displayed a studied, metallic style which emphasized posture rather than motion, successfully overcame the handicap huge Lewisohn Stadium places on a solo dancer. A friendly audience loudly clamored for encores. Critics who joined in the applause for Tamiris found the lusty cavorting of the Bahama dancers merely the obvious counterpart of "hot" music, considered its presence with the Philharmonic-Symphony incongruous...
...above mentioned. I have had to borrow and otherwise sacrifice. I am very willing, and intend to turn over all my assets to liquidate the remaining amounts which I may owe so that I may. unencumbered and unmolested, devote myself from now on to the interest of making better motion pictures." ¶ William Wrigley Jr. Co. declared four dividends on its chewing gum business- one payable in each of the next four months-at the extraordinary rate of 26 30/95? per share. Not so complicated as it looks, the new rate will result in stockholders getting a monthly dividend...
...advisability of opening a Paris hotel in the hope that friends who remembered when she was a famed stage comedienne might patronize it enough to keep her comfortable. Now, at 63, she is indisputably the most valuable performer in Hollywood. Last year 12,000 exhibitors in Motion Picture Herald's nation-wide poll agreed that her name was worth more at the box office than that of Greta Garbo, Janet Gaynor, Jean Harlow or Mickey Mouse. Her last four pictures have earned an average of $800,000 each-far more than any other star's. She gets...