Word: previewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queensway has cost nearly $40,000,000 and taken nine years to build. Curiosity among Britons to see its insides has been phenomenal. They have bought over $35,000 worth of tickets entitling them to preview peeks. This peek-money has gone to hospitals in Liverpool and Birkenhead, famed cities which face each other across the River Mersey and have now been connected by glamorous Queensway...
...boycott has not discriminated between pictures. ... A shutdown would entail unemployment for several thousand people. . . . We have offered Cardinal Dougherty the use of a suitable projection room where pictures may be viewed before release. This preview would enable him to prepare a black and white list which could serve as further protection for his flock...
...July 2). Centre of the excitement was a tall, husky Irishman named Joseph I. Breen. Mr. Breen, onetime Associated Pressman, was about to become the cinema's chief censor. His job will be to read scripts before production, to send assistants to supervise production of dubious sequences, to preview finished films and mark those that pass with a "subtitle" indicating that they are fit moral fare for U. S. cinemaddicts. Pictures too dirty to pass Censor Breen will be subjected to scrutiny, not as heretofore by a friendly committee of three producers, but by a special convention...
Down from his California mountain last week went William Randolph Hearst to cross the Rocky Mountains for the first time in nearly two years. With his bulbous Son George and his keen-eyed Editor Arthur Brisbane he swept into Chicago for a preview of the Century of Progress. At luncheon there General Charles Gates Dawes revealed something that not even wise old Reporter Brisbane knew before: Publisher Hearst had underwritten last year's Fair to the tune of $500,000. twice as much as any other individual...
...Twenty guests of President & Mrs. Roosevelt, including Comedian Eddie Dowling and Cinemactress Lillian Gish, had dinner at the White House and saw a preview of a film adapted from Arnold Bennett's Buried Alive, featuring Miss Gish. At one point the President remarked: "Eddie, that music is too heavily scored." Mr. Dowling agreed. After the showing an English lady gushed: "I loved it! All those English scenes. I only wonder whether the American public will appreciate its subtle appeal?" "Tut. tut," replied the smiling President. "I'm one of the American mob and I enjoyed it thoroughly...