Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some 17 years ago, when a primitive U. S. cinema public chewed peanuts in its motion picture palaces, Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle started on his way to fame. Like other actors, he preferred what was then the greater glory and emolument of the legitimate stage to the comparatively bastard screen. Baby Mine was his first vehicle (in stock company). In 1910, they say, it was a smart and even froward thing. In 1927, it looks like a bustle in a Shubert show. Mr. Arbuckle enacts a pulpy mass who alternately stews in sweaty fear and freezes in gelatinous embarrassment, because...
Films of those members of the University who qualified in the screen tests lately conducted by College Humor and the First National Picture Corporation will be shown at the University Theatre for four days, beginning Monday, according to an announcement make last night...
...Thursday night at the Central Square Theatre, the public will have the opportunity to see the films of those members of the University who qualified for the screen tests which were sponsored at Harvard by College Humor and the First National Picture Corporation, it was announced last night...
...their nation-wide search for new silver-screen talent, the backers of the drive sent representatives to 37 universities, attracting approximately 15,000 aspirants for a trip to Hollywood...
...motion picture talent seekers sent photographic units to 37 universities and more than 15,000 men reported to attempt to qualify for screen honors...