Word: newsreel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movement is growing. The solitary maiden who answered requests five years ago now has fourteen assistants to help her handle Proven Pictures' four local theatres, the Tremont, the Newsreel, the Repertory, and the (Medford) Square. A couple of weeks ago they went down to Hartford to open their twentieth theatre; they say it's the most beautiful theatre in New England, but they may be biased. It is the first of the chain to bear the Name. They think this is a wonderful idea, and every new house they open is going to be called the Proven Pictures Theatre...
...proposal to have the proceedings broadcast over a national hookup. Concealing whatever chagrin he felt at this. Convict Mooney, dressed in the neat blue suit he wears on such occasions, began his story quietly into a loudspeaker which promptly required adjustment. While it was being repaired, newspaper and newsreel cameramen flocked about the celebrity. Said Convict Mooney: "I hope you people in the room will bear with me but after being buried for 21 years ... I sort of take to all this...
...tune of grinding newsreel cameras, surprised and flattered oarsmen left the docks at Newell Boat House yesterday afternoon for their regular practice. Hollywood in the shape of a barrage of Pathe and Fox Movietone photographers descended upon the Charles River to stage a Cecil B. DeMille extravaganza a la Bolles...
...guests as they passed down the receiving line. Conspicuously absent were most higher officials of the New Deal and Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet, which was represented only by Attorney General Homer Cummings and Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper. Earlier in the day, in the presence of newsreel photographers, the guest of honor McNutt had proudly announced: "I am not a candidate for any public office at this time...
International Settlement (Twentieth Century-Fox) makes a bee line to the Far East to cash in on the publicity value of the daily Sino-Japanese headlines. More worthy of note than its short-order plot are: 1) its resourceful utilization of the newsreel shots of the Shanghai bombing (TIME, Sept. 13); 2) its hopeful experiment with doll-like, undistinguished June Lang (real name: Jane Vlasek) as a beautiful-but-dumb comedian; 3) its commanding hero, 6 ft.-3 in. George Sanders. Russian-born of British parents, Sanders made a great stir in his first Hollywood role, as the foppish Lord...