Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wise-Crackers. Gilbert Seldes, self-appointed arbiter of the stage, the screen and literature, has abruptly dropped his defense and written a play. He did more than drop his defense; he tied his hands behind his back. For his play is one of the most astoundingly inefficient that the oldest inhabitant can recall from the pen of a presumably intelligent person...
...acquisition of a new moving picture projector of the very latest type, which features a new incandescent lamp instead of the ordinary unclamp type, has been announced by the Union. Early tests of the machine have proved very satisfactory, but even better results are expected when the new screen has been obtained. The machine will be available for motion pictures at class smokers whenever desired...
...innovation in the Phillips Brooks House annual "open house" entertainment on Christmas night, December 25, is to take the form of moving pictures, it was announced yesterday by Mr. Walter I. Tibbetts, Graduate Secretary of the Phillips Brooks House Association. Three reels will be flashed on the screen, including films of Dickens' famous Christmas characters entitled, "Old Scrooge" and "Sunny Jim's Christmas...
President Coolidge pressed a button in the White House. No secretary or stenographer entered; no uniformed blackamoor thrust his head around a screen, but far away in Chicago a gong rang; the lights in the huge amphitheatre of the Chicago Riding Club flashed on; a fine brass band assisted by a $50,000 organ struck up successively the national anthems of Belgium, France, England, the U. S., while a mighty shout arose from the crowd. National Horse Show had begun...
...serious and to ill-effect. He has produced a drama in which the modern craze for psychology and complexes is the inspiration. It is a strange hybrid and smacks of Hollywood. Joseph Schildkraut is the star. His personality and appeal, so valuable in the legitimate box office, do not screen particularly impressively...