Word: scenically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RAILROAD MAN FOR A DAY! "Off the Beaten Path" Scenic and Historical Tour 356 miles for $3.50 BRING YOUR BOY-BRING YOUR CAMERA See the Railroad "Behind the Scenes" Posters such as this in Chicago last week testified to a brand new development in U. S. railroad sales technique. It is traditional for small boys to want to be locomotive engineers. U. S. railroads have lately discovered that many an adult male has never outgrown that ambition. Result in the past three months has been an epidemic of "Off the Beaten Path" railway tours whose success has been as immediate...
...Fine Arts, as usual, presents a variety of short subjects, of which the most interesting is a photographic tour of Britain's Mediterranean "life-line". There is also a comedy short and a Hawaian scenic short...
Chicago's Northwestern University announced a course on "Scenic Design" by able, sleek-haired Harvardman Lee Simonson. Cinemactor Irving Pichel was invited to University of California at Los Angeles to teach "The Art of Acting." Biggest celebrity beat was scored by small Mills College in Oakland, Calif. To summer students Mills offered "Civilization, Literature and Politics," conducted in French by Novelist Jules Remains, "Verse Writing" by Poet William Rose Benét, tennis instruction by Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, four-time U. S. Women's Singles champion...
...overmuch dramatic significances. At the other end of the line we find the Park Theatre, fromerly of Mineky's chain, presenting the much whispered about Czechoslovakian film "Ecstasy." The Park bills it for Adults Only, but it is nowhere near that exciting. Except for moments of genuine scenic charm it is an exceedingly pedestrian study of why girls get restless at times and will please all those who find this study sufficiently interesting to overcome the noxious results of a censor's unseeing...
...cravings. In no sense obscene or pornographic, if treats this study with the frank and simple directness which seems to be anathema to a section of the American mind. Unlike certain of the contemporary dramatists who seem to find frankness synonymous with sordidness it tells its elemental tale with scenic beauty and dramatic vigor. For treatment of such a theme it is artistically essential to develop an intimacy with the heroine's character, and in so doing the film has apparently insulted "good taste." Instead of the mechanical, stop-watch kisses of Hollywood pictures it allows its actors to demonstrate...