Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...routine hazards of adapting a literary classic for the screen are increased in this case by the fact that an earlier adaptation in which Douglas Fairbanks performed in 1921 was a screen classic in its own right. That any subsequent version of the Dumas work would seem tame by comparison was almost inevitable. Consequently, it is to the credit of Author Dumas, Screenwriter Dudley Nichols, Director Rowland V. Lee and a cast of capable sword & cloak actors that this one is still a handsome, charming, and vivacious costume melodrama which, if something less than a cinema milestone, is still better...
Typical of the cinema method employed in Things to Come is the passage describing what happens when they leave the Earth: "Clouds of dust obscure the screen and clear to show the crowd after the shock. Some press their ears as if they were painful, others stare under their hands up into the sky. Then the crowd begins to stream back towards the city . . . in a straggling, aimless manner, and pausing ever and again to stare...
Metropolitan (Twentieth Century-Fox). It is apparent that, until opera-cinemas can be written about persons other than opera singers, the form will remain affected, feeble, monotonous. However, until that time arrives, Metropolitan may be considered as one of the best examples of its sort yet screened. Its story varies from pattern in that the hero triumphs on the stage, not of the Metropolitan in Manhattan but of a rival company in Philadelphia. Furthermore, Metropolitan has a string of less negative qualities to recommend it. Its screen play, by Bess Meredyth and George Marion Jr., is unfailingly light-hearted...
...member of the hospital staff, Dr. Minas Joannides, led the woman to an X-ray machine. Visible on a fluorescent screen were her slanted ribs, her heart behind her breast bone, and shadowy splotches which Dr. Joannides explained were her diseased lungs...
...Dream will be exhibited throughout the U. S. in theatres usually used for legitimate productions rather than in cinemansions, impressively brought to the attention of schools, women's clubs and Shakespeare societies. Delighted Warner publicists last week proudly revealed the whereabouts of the original working script of the screen play, by Charles Kenyon and Mary McCall Jr.: Washington's Folger Memorial Shakespeare Library, along with a print of the film...