Word: preview
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make it manageable on newsstands. The first issue represented an investment of about $100.000. Best augury for its success last week was news of two competitors. Stage advertised a July issue completely devoted to the Cinema. Forthcoming is another high-class cinemagazine, Cinema Preview, to be published in San Francisco...
...FORTUNE, whose poll last autumn indicated his re-election with an error of only about 1% in the popular vote, whose poll in April indicated that 52.6% of the people favored a third term for him. Last week, FORTUNE'S June issue carried a special supplement giving a preview of its July poll on the President's popularity as affected by the Supreme Court issue. This showed a bigger change in his popularity than took place at any time during the campaign. Whereas 14 months ago 84.8% of those who were critical of the Court favored him, only...
...first preview of Woman Chases Man, the audience's response to incidents like this was eminently satisfactory. Best sequences: Travis applying for a job; B. J. cooking hunter's thrush; the fight for the pen with which Kenneth is to sign the contract parodying the fight for the pistol which is the great traditional ending of Westerns...
...ring appearances, and these are among the most realistic scenes of the sort yet portrayed on the screen. The picture exhibits pugilism's backstage activities in bars, night clubs and areaways with such faithfulness that an audience of sportswriters, managers and boxing officials invited to a Manhattan preview last week amused themselves by trying to identify the characters. Said Madison Square Garden's jaunty Fight-Promoter Jimmy Johnston, who is currently embroiled with the New York State Athletic Commission, when Nick Donati tells Ward to meet him at the Commission's office: "That...
...Government rubles on a picture called Bezhin Meadow, about Pavlik Morozov, twelve-year-old Soviet Martyr who was killed by kulaks (landowning farmers) for informing the Government of chicaneries by his kulak father. Last week, one version of Bezhin Meadow already having proved unsatisfactory, the second version was previewed by the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party. Result of the preview was that the Committee banned the picture as "inartistic and politically bankrupt." Main sin of Director Eisenstein seemed to have been that he "confused the class struggle with the struggle between good and evil." Further Eisenstein faults were...