Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better bill than now graces the University screen would be difficult to demand of any two feature movie programs. "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" has been justly praised for its spectacular melodrama, picturesquely framed against the forbidding north Indian mountain passes. Very roughly adapted from the successful book of similar title, it proves an exciting bit of pageantry capably acted by a cast which includes Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Dick Cromwell, and Kathleen Burke...
...scenarist, he struck his stride with Lady for a Day, has since become one of Hollywood's highest-paid writers.* He lives at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, plays expert tennis, writes longhand. Says he: "In writing for the stage there is an enormous satisfaction. . . . Adapting stories for the screen is often a thankless...
...save the Yankee's life and property. The only thing in the show which did not come out of the Ark is Negro Bill Robinson's dancing. He does his celebrated "Climb-the-Stairs" routine and contributes the finest butler's walk that ever reached the screen...
...stage show this week takes on the character of a Continental revue and is quite varied in content. Dancers, comedians, a magician, and a screen star, make an entertaining revue. Margo, the star of Crime Without Passion, and Rumba is featured...
...derby. His financial plight makes this task seem an impossible one but he is aided by his young sister-in-law (Myrna Loy) and finally succeeds in getting Broadway Bill to the post. The ensuing race is easily the most exciting horse race we have ever seen on the screen, and Broadway Bill comes through only to collapse after the finish, his delicate system overtaxed by the tremendous exertion--with the usual amorous by play the picture concludes. This may sound somewhat boringly familiar, but Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy play their parts with sincere skill and simplicity, and make...