Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into people, used his trick to revive a group of mythological effigies in a museum of art. Out of respect for the Legion of Decency, Director Sherman and his associates were compelled to clip their wings in following some of Author Smith's imaginative flights. Obviously on the screen it was impossible to have the gods and goddesses visit a Broadway department store completely naked...
...cottage, handsome Cedric Gibbons interiors of a Park Avenue apartment, a publisher's office and a waterfront cabaret. It gives Constance Bennett a chance to pose in four different evening gowns and to prove, superfluously, that she is still the most affected young woman on the U. S. screen. Likely to be popular, because of its stars and a rapid-fire style in which Director Robert Leonard shows the influence of Frank Capra, After Office Hours contains one genuinely comic sequence: a lunchroom proprietor (Henry Armetta) working himself into a slow rage when his patrons comment disdainfully...
...dancer impersonates the financier first in his act and later-when business conditions make it imperative for the financier to be in two places at once-in the financier's home. In addition to making it possible for Maurice Chevalier to appear on the screen in almost every sequence, this arrangement also allows him to have two leading ladies-Ann Sothern, as the music-hall comedian's jealous mistress: slant-eyed Merle Oberon as the financier's mischievous wife. If the suspense of wondering whether the financier knows whether his wife knows who was making love...
...Dionne case leaves me cold. I have something to show you." Thus spoke Obstetrician Edward Armin Schumann of the University of Pennsylvania last week, at a gynecologists' meeting in New Orleans. Upon a screen flashed a lantern-slide picture of six wizened black babies, alike as shoe-buttons. Continued Dr. Schumann: "Here are sextuplets, born to a mother on the African Gold Coast, without the help of modern medicine, without any Dr. Dafoe. These babies were alive and well after eight days, I am informed in a letter from a missionary friend...
Rudy Vallee, of grape-fruit fame, appears at the Met this week on the screen in a musical show entitled "Sweet Music." For those who enjoy his singing the picture will prove entertaining, for he bursts into song about every ten minutes. The plot is unexciting, but thoroughly innocuous. The stage show is good and features Mitzi Green, who given several excellent imitations of screen stars. The chorus presents some good dance routines and the stage show is livened up by some really funny comedians...