Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carefully examined the teeth, fore & hindquarters, neck, back and feathers of the setter pup, Daro of Maridor. As he put each dog through its paces, the crowd applauded to show preference: they favored the poodle, the precise terrier, the ridiculously proud dachshund and the young orange setter, gayest in motion. Down the line Judge Bates moved again, perspiring. When he finally waved Handler Charles Palmer and Daro of Maridor to the centre, no disgruntled boo, no catcall could be heard above the applause...
Cinema theatres that show double features make more money than single-feature theatres. To the motion picture industry that fact is clear indication that double features are what the public wants. But anybody who has ever eaten too much candy knows that what the public wants and what it ought to get may be two different things. Last week in two important cinema centres the double feature was getting a thorough going over, to determine 1) whether the public really prefers the double bill, and 2) whether its eyes are not bigger than its stomach...
...Chester B. Bahn put his finger on the real danger of Chicago's proposed action, hinted that the industry ought to purge itself lest "a municipality . . . tomorrow . . . may similarly attack the alternative feature & shorts program, and the day after by legislation decree the length of a feature itself." Motion Picture Herald's Martin Quigley, Johnny-one-note of the trade press, was plaintively sarcastic: "This industry is going to be fixed up fine," wrote he, "when all the experts get through -making it safe for babies, supplying adult education on the screen and carrying the messages...
...office names. Late last month MGM ran a radio contest for a new title, paid a $5,000 prize to 17-year-old Roy Harris of Greenville, S. C. The investment produced wide publicity and a title near enough Of Human Bondage (TIME, July 9, 1934) to guarantee any motion picture a flying box-office start...
Love, music, humor, and spectacle have been carefully moulded together by Director Henry King in the making of "In Old Chicago," and the result, now showing in Boston at the Colonial Theatre, is a powerful, vivid, and entertaining motion picture. Starring the delectable Alice Faye, it is an interesting portrayal of Chicago in the seventies, and the climax--the great fire of 1871--is a worthy addition to the recent series of Hollywood excursions into the realm of spectacular catastrophe...