Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most highly prized item is the Morgan loan, a thirteenth century bestiary, the "Description of Animals" of Ibn Bakhtishu, the earliest known manuscript of the Mongol period of Persian art. The book was copied for the Emperor Ghazan Khan, of the Genghis Khan dynasty, and contains 94 colored drawings of animal subjects...
These films meet a very definite educational need in the University at large, besides being first-class entertainment, because they are instructive in that they present the best in motion picture art for any given period, and show the development of the technique and setting of the industry in logical and instructive sequence. The Film Society may well be proud of its achievements if it repeats its successes of last season...
...Great Garrick (Warner Bros.). As different from the cinema's typical period romance as champagne from sack, Ernest Vajda's figmentary episode in the life of 18th Century Play Actor David Garrick fits the Hollywood gag into the elaborate frame of Georgian humor. Garrick, who played Macbeth in the uniform of a Hanoverian general, might have enjoyed this modernization. He probably would have chuckled at his 1937 impersonator, debonair, English Brian Aherne, stealing scenes from noted Scene-Stealer Edward Everett Horton, but would certainly have advised some rewriting in the interest of pace...
...Washington. Some 50 blue-&-gold Palace Laundries ("Long Live Linen'') on Washington street corners wash enough of Washington's starched shirts and white collars to supply Mr. Marshall with money for his sporting activities and his spectacular private life. For a brief blazing period he was publisher of Hearst's Washington Times. Even before that, he was taken up by amused Washington socialites to whom on every social occasion he recalled the fact that he did their laundry...
...Ferguson's term, when a school superintendent testified an American Book Co. salesman had asked him how he would like to have his $3,600 salary doubled. During the NRA textbook code hearings, however, a publisher estimated $500,000 was spent by the industry in an unspecified period for dinners for book buyers. Most agents and educators still see nothing wrong in an agent reporting openings for better jobs to teachers and officials to whom he hopes to sell books...