Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Repeal the tax on admissions, mostly derived from neighborhood motion picture theatres...
Governor Pinchot, campaigning against liquor in Pennsylvania, passed the word along to the State Board of Motion Picture Censors. Hereafter, no pictures of drinking parties, hip flasks, violations of the Volstead Act, or pictures ridiculing enforcement agents will appear on the screen in Pennsylvania...
...detection, sped on toward his destination, which was reputed to be his beautiful 20,000-acre estate at Oels near Breslau in Silesia, where he was eagerly awaited by leading citizens dressed in Prince Albert coats and high hat, not to mention a host of foreign press correspondents and motion picture men. Meanwhile the Allied Powers, having spent sleepless nights on account of the rumors of the impending return of the ex-Crown Prince to his Fatherland, were thrown into a state of nervous prostration by the rumor that the ex-Kaiser had received his passports...
...Staff foresaw " the necessity for certain military measures to protect the French troops in the Ruhr." The first of these measures would be to straighten out the Ruhr salient by taking strategic positions to the South in Westphalia. It was estimated that France could put 200,000 men in motion: 55,000 already in the Ruhr basin, 95,000 in the Rhineland, 50,000 massed near the frontier, including large garrisons at Metz and Strasbourg, with reserves at Belford Epinal and Verdun...
Famous Players, the largest motion picture concern in the world, will suspend production for a number of months. Their representatives assure the world at-large, however, that they have a vast supply of undisclosed photography in their possession. Heading their list is The Ten Commandments, a $2,000,000 production which, they trust, will follow their The Covered Wagon as the most popular film in the world. The prologue shows the original ten in process of discovery by Moses; later the film discusses their application in modern life...