Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regarded as the start of a new year in the cinema business. Last week half a dozen major pictures, in sharp distinction to the products from the bottom of last year's barrel which have been unloaded on exhibitors for the past two months, were ready for the screen...
...days on the Pacific Coast, returned to Japan to become secretary to the great empire-builder, Field Marshal Prince Yamagata. Matsuoka's appointment as President of S. M. R. means that Japan's most determined militarists again dominate the Government. Smart, they put up a great smoke screen of announcements last month that War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi was appointing "milder men" to key posts...
...appreciate Shirley Temple's current position in the cinema industry it is merely necessary to imagine for a painful instant what her absence might have made of a vehicle which, because of her presence, be comes passable entertainment. She is scarcely ever off the screen in Curly Top, executes so many of her specialties that for her confirmed admirers the picture should be the most effective of the rapid series of four she has made since becoming a star last winter. In the course of her impersonation Shirley Temple sings two songs (Animal Crackers in My Soup, When...
...boyhood and then concentrates on his extraordinary career as gourmet, patron of the stage, stockmarket impresario and teetotaler that followed his overnight switch from New York Central "baggage smasher" to major-league railroad supply salesman. Since Brady's life is a legend, Playwright Preston Sturges, who did the screen play from Parker Morell's biography, wisely included apocryphal as well as factual details. Brady (Edward Arnold) is shown ordering a twelve-course dinner and meeting the youthful John L. Sullivan at a café; on the same night he is so overwhelmed by hearing Lillian Russell sing...
Java Head (Basil Dean) is a conscientious transcription of Joseph Hergesheimer's novel about a New England sea captain and the Manchu Princess he married and brought back from China to early 19th Century Salem. That it is much less exciting on the screen than it was between book covers is due partly to the fact that its English producers fell down badly in the matter of sound recording and partly to the mistake of its U. S. director, J. Walter Ruben, in his apparent supposition that lethargic pace was the proper cinema equivalent of Author Hergesheimer...