Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Once in a Lifetime, as he impersonates Flute, the bellows-mender; and the over-energetic jabberings of James Cagncy as Bottom, the weaver, effectively combine to detract from the real merits of the production. Omitting much of the superb poetry which is the play's chief virtue, the screen version still contrives to run too long (2½ hr.). Nonetheless, by grace of Hal Mohr's magnificent photography, which makes the backgrounds far more effective than any stage set could ever be. plus Composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold's brilliant arrangement of the Mendelssohn score, and the indestructibly...
...Insurance Man" was the title of a fond article once written by Will Rogers. Client Rogers' trusted insurance man was immaculate, grey-templed John J, Kemp, broker to many a stage & screen star, member of the Million-Dollar Club, each of whose members sells $1,000.000 of insurance annually. Into successful Insuranceman Kemp's Manhattan office last week marched two detectives to arrest him for forgery and grand larceny. Sighed Prisoner Kemp: "I've been expecting this for seven years." Last year he had received an insurance dividend check for $1,524.51, payable to Mrs. Will Rogers...
...Council proposes to do is spend $100,000 or more per year in attempting to persuade U. S. citizens to drink like gentlemen, to acquire "an attitude of individual responsibility toward the use of liquor. Our messages will travel over the airwaves, reach the eye and ear through the screen and stage, and fashion public thought through advertising and other kinds of publicity...
...Miss Louise starts him to fame again by bringing the director of the Metropolitan Opera Company to the 5? & 10? store where he is plugging songs. By the time he finds his way to Miss Louise's arms it appears certain that Martini has established himself as the screen's No. 1 tenor just as certainly as Grace Moore is its soprano and Lawrence Tibbett its baritone. What producers will do in the future for material to satisfy the public's new hunger for classic singing remains vague but pictures like Here's To Romance make...
Divorcing. Dorothy Gish, stage and screen actress: James Rennie, actor (Murder at the Vanities) ; in Bridgeport, Conn. She testified that he came home intoxicated on weekends, woke her up, babbled incoherently for hours, caused her to lose sleep and have fits of hysterical laughter, once induced an attack of hiccoughs that lasted six days...