Word: reel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Merry Widow (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the third and by far the best cinema version of Franz Lehar's famed operetta. The first was a two-reel monstrosity in which the late Alma Rubens and Wallace Reid performed in 1912. In 1925 Erich von Stroheim directed Mae Murray and John Gilbert in the second. Cinemaddicts who have seen all three are likely to find the current version, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, as far superior to the second as the second was to the first. Only the most captious critics could find any fault with a picture which fairly entranced...
...band gallantly tackled the Greek national anthem for the royal foreigners. While King George and the Archbishop of Canterbury sat looking on, royalty and servants danced the Paul Jones. There were also the Spanish gavotte and the flirtation polka, but the feature of the evening was a Highland reel by Princess Marina after only two days' coaching in Queen Mary's private parlor...
...return to comparisons, for the benefit of any one who is still interested in them, Dartmouth managed to reel off 420 yards and achieve 18 first downs against Norwich, while Brown went through B. U. for 299 yards, and 15 first downs during the course of an 18-0 victory. West Point found that its running attack wasn't going well against Washburn because of the wet field, so the Cadets took to the air for 24 yards on two passes. Holy Cross wasn't really faced with very tough opposition...
...true that TIME is going to put out a newsreel? If so, I wish to register two requests: 1) As a theatre manager to get the earliest possible announcement of your reel so I can have the opportunity to be one of the first to show it. 2) As a cameraman (I have 35 mm. B. & H.) to show you some of my films and be on your list to cover assignments in this territory...
...hours) on record between man and fish. When Angler Howell reached shore he weighed his catch. Its 792 lb. were 34 lb. heavier than the record Nova Scotia tuna caught by Novelist Zane Grey in 1929, 6 lb. lighter than the world's record rod and reel tuna caught by Colonel E. T. Peel off Scarborough, England, two years...