Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hoagy himself is an ascetic, sad faced gentleman. Unlike most radio and screen celebrities (who began college) Hoagy actually did get the law degree all the others seemed to start out to get before joining an orchestra and leaving--and Hoagy had an orchestra, too. This is a matter of pride to Kappa Sigma, the fraternity Carmichael joined soon after he entered the University of Indian in 1920. There, in the famous Indiana Book Nook, Hoagy used to make his classmates weep as he played the original Old Rocking Chair, so sad a composition that his publishers made him tone...
After working on newspapers in St. Louis, Chicago, and Montreal, John B. Kennedy became an associate editor of Collier's magazine. He specialized in writing breezy interviews with stage and screen celebrities. Kennedy was a man of the world and he knew bow to keep out too much breathless adoration of the great...
Your excellent cinema columnist trod on a sensitive spot and misled the public in the article on Fred Astaire (TIME, Sept. 9). Mr. Astaire was established on the screen in Flying Down to Rio, for which picture I brought him to Hollywood and teamed him with Ginger Rogers...
...human phenomena, His Family Tree is principally a frame for James Barton's elaborate embroideries in brogue, blarney, eye-twin-kling and jig-steps. That an obsolete comicstrip narrative is not actually offensive is due to the skill of Joel Sayre and John Twist who adapted it for the screen. Good shot: Barton's skit of a drunk trying to read a newspaper which ends when he has rolled it helplessly into a soggy ball...
...double-feature at the Paramount and Fenway this week is no reason for an extra, the performance of three hours slips by with unquestioned rapidity. "Charlie Chan in Shanghai" and "I Live For Love" are filled with the type of soothing suspense that keeps eyes glued to the screen...