Word: moviedom
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...undertake the task lightly," said he, "but it seemed to afford an opportunity for service. . . . We want everyone who has any ideas for bettering the motion picture to come in through the Open Door and tell us his ideas about it. . . ." Will Hays sat as tsar of moviedom like Judge Landis in baseball, yet saw people, listened. "I believe," said he, "in the personal relationship of man, the expression of personality, and above all, keeping the human element-the heart touch-in everything...
...loves politics. Where his youth aimed, his manhood achieved. Last week he carried his new sphere-moviedom-to his old political realm, talked to President Coolidge about films of Woodrow Wilson, General Pershing's homecoming, the burial of the Unknown Soldier-all history. And as he walked the grounds of White Pine Camp, he seemed pleased...
Prowling far into the northern Punjab, prowling further into the remote North-West Frontier Province of India, irrepressible impresarios of moviedom purchased last week at Rawalpindi, a building which they deemed suitable for a cinema theatre...
Fashionable Simla, mountain resort of Sahibs, got this news, got also news of riots at Amritsar, scene of hideous British butcherings in 1919. Something more serious than anti-moviedom seemed to portend