Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sears found this out by showing his subjects jokes which were flashed on the screen by a stereoptician. At the critical moment the machine broke down. When the machine resumed operation, the point of the story was revealed. The subjects were ask to rate the story on a simple scale indicating whether is was very funny, in different, or very poor...
...print what specific reforms they think are necessary. Someone would perform a great service if they'd get out a definite plan for reform. Then the good man Friday of the New Deal would have something to oppose. As it is, he just smiles safely behind the smoke screen of those reformers who speak in terms of glittering generalities...
...general subject of the relative importance in contemporary life of the various form of public entertainment. Mentioning the fact of their accessibility to people of all classes and stations, Mr. Whiteman agreed in this regard, that of the factors or elements which make up life today, the stage, screen, radio, and popular music have added as much or more than any other to the general advancement and contentment of living...
...Little Minister (RKO). That quality, usually defined as whimsey, which admirers of Sir James M. Barrie find so charming in his prose, is impossible to reproduce upon the screen. For this reason The Little Minister lacks some of the effect of the novel from which it was derived. It attempts, therefore, to substitute charms of its own. Because of the delicacy with which Director Richard Wallace handled the story, and the peculiar grace of Katharine Hepburn in the role that Maude Adams created in 1897, the substitution is entirely satisfactory...
Francis Lederer is the first matinee idol in years who seems able to delight both sexes and who possesses genuine histrionic talent. Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland again prove their right to the title of Hollywood's champion comedy pair and Joan Bennet is rapidly adding a screen presence to her considerable charms...