Word: reelingly
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...second feature this week is entitled "Life or the Party" with Gene Raymond, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick and Joe Ponner. Inconsequental to an extreme, the picture succeeds in being very funny at times despite the hapless efforts of Mr. Parkyakarkas to add to the gaityAn average news reel and an excellent March of Time comulete the bill
...University, audiences want to know first "How Are the Ritz Brothers?". The rest they know almost before the picture starts. This is a program musical, pretty well wrapped up and dished out by Don Ameche, smoothing his insouciant swath, and Alice Faye, plugging her puckering path, through the regulation reel length...
...Harvardian how many museums his University possesses, and he will undoubtedly reel off the names of the Fogg and either the Germanic of the Semitic museums. A few even might remember having heard rumors of a vague institution known as the University Museum. But it is indeed a difficult task to find men who are in the know about such establishments, officially going under the title of museums, as the Harvard Seismograph Station, the Institute of Geographical Exploration, the Yenching Institute, or the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research...
Danced in a circle by a group, like the Paul Jones, the Big Apple is led by one who calls the steps, as in a Virginia reel. Fundamental step is a hop similar to the Lindy Hop. In the words of Variety, "it requires a lot of floating power and fanny-ing." In groups or singly, the dancers do such steps-mostly of Negro origin-as the Black Bottom, "shag," Suzi-Q, Charleston, "truckin'," as well as old square-dance turns like London Bridge, and a formation which resembles an Indian Rain Dance. The Big Apple invariably ends upon...
...last week Cameraman Lippert's film had been shown in no U. S. theatre- For this there was good reason. The prints were held by Senator La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee. So highly did the young Wisconsin Senator value the reel as evidence in the Committee's investigation of the Memorial Day riot that he defied a subpoena for the film voted by the Senate Post Office Committee, which is pondering a general steel strike investigation...