Word: reel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students will be held in the Living Room of the Harvard Union. W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, Arnold Horween '21, Head Football Coach, and B. H. Ticknor II, '31, Captain of the football team, will speak on Athletics and Physical Education at Harvard. The moving-picture reel of Athletics at Harvard will also be shown...
...Tommy Freeman, Cleveland welterweight: the world's championship of his class on the decision of a hometown referee in a 15-round bout with flashy black Jack Thompson of Oakland, Calif, who had him on the floor in the second round, made him reel in the seventh, and kept on even terms with him all through...
...time to one of the leading roles, so to speak, of the production. Just to what extent the influence of the movies may be felt on the future of education is purely a matter of conjecture, but it affords an interesting field for speculation nevertheless. Here is an eight reel moving picture which gives a fairly complete account of the entire development of the state of Massachusetts, and in a manner certainly more graphic than would be a series of lectures on the same subject. Will the college professor of the future be obliged to appear on the screen...
...sophisticated echo of an old form, but the great, universal "western" itself, the one about the benign Mexican badman - living in disguise and loved by his friends and the village girls- who is really the desperate Arizona Kid, and who is discovered and chased in the last reel and gets away with his sweetheart down the canyon side. Instead of rushing, it is lethargic, ornate; when no dialog or songs are possible in the script, members of the cast, apparently a cabal to slow up the action at any cost, talk or sing to themselves or to their horses, guns...
...best spot on the bill from the attitude of pure entertainment is the two-reel comedy "Blotto", the quintessence of which is entirely Laurel and Hardy. Under the direction of James Parrot, these slapstickers have raised the art of pie-slinging to a level surpassing everybody but, and equalling Monsieur Chaplin. The gags and plot are worse than mediocre but thanks to two exquisitely mobile faces Laurel and Hardy have their audience rolling about floors and tearing the distinctive features off armchairs...