Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond sighs and puts down his book. "A Motion Picture Version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet." He turns to his bed and tumbles sleepily in. All night he stands beneath her balcony and sighs--and sighs...
...Talking morality to them does no good." At a convention of Catholic bishops in Washington he proposed the Legion of Decency to boycott indecent movies. The Legion was formed, with Cincinnati's Archbishop McNicholas (see p. 33) at its head, and Bishop Cantwell became well hated by the motion picture industry. Since then new film profits have turned this hate to love...
...action of the drama is set in a boys' military academy; the cast is centered about Richard Cromwell, of motion picture fame, and is supported by Edwin Philips, John Call, Jean Rouverol, Charles Dingle, Edward Andrews, Ethel Jackson, Gordon Nelson, and Vernon Crane...
...Pope Pius manifested his concern by an encyclical commending the U. S. Legion of Decency, stressing the advisability of similar organizations throughout the world (TIME, July 13). Last week he was pleased to receive the report of Giuseppe Cassinis, official Papal representative at last fortnight's International Motion Picture Exposition in Venice. The Cassinis report said that of all the films shown at the Exposition, 60% were "morally good...
...town are taxed with two "peak load" periods, the incoming in September, and the exodus in June. But the reserve power of a national organization is such that the smooth functioning of the home-to-room service is unimpaired in efficiency. The express agency does the job in one motion, saving the trouble of moving by separate stages...