Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...melee of newspaper films which has flooded the motion picture industry comes at last some really excellent entertainment. "Love is News" featuring Loretta Young and Tyronne Power provides amusement galore for a not too critical audience. Although the plot of the film is weak, good acting and sparkling humor soon overcome this drawback. Loretta Young plays the part of an heiress who decides to throw some of the publicity which has been hounding her over to Tyronne Power, a clever and particularly offending reporter. With this as its basis, the picture proceeds to develop to a high level of comedy...
...Wenatchee, Wash., because it "held thousands of skilled apple workers in the Wenatchee Valley up to ridicule and contempt," the Chamber of Commerce petitioned the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Inc. for elimination from the screen of the term "apple-knocker...
...types that were his neighbors in his native New York and were later to elect him mayor. He received his law degree in 1910. As a member of Congress for 14 years, he attracted national attention. His shrill voice, squat body and flashing eyes went into bantam-cock motion when he felt legislation was unintelligent and designed for the privileged. His fearlessness, eloquence and ready wit kept him on front pages...
...Freshmen in the Yard was a completely dismal failure, and seems to be a good example of the degeneracy which has set in among the younger generation. In past years the clarion call of "Rheinhardt" was enough to set the manly, virile blood of our predecessors in motion, and spur all good Harvard men into action. But times have changed, and past generations of men are being supplanted by a third rate lot of "wee cowering timorous beasties...
This writer is at present at work on an original motion picture story, "First to Fight," based in part on the U. S. war with Tripoli and the capture of Derna, and covering the period up to and including the participation of Marines, "picked men, to lead the storming of Chapultepec under Major Twiggs and Captain McDonald Reynolds," at Mexico City in 1847; i.e., "From the Halls of Montexuma to the Shores of Tripoli...