Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University: "One Night Of Love"--a delightful, melodious romance which is especially distinguished by the captivating presence of Miss Grace Moore of the Metropolitan Opera Company who has a beautiful voice and an extremely gracious person, in fact she is about the best thing that has happened to the screen in many a month. "British Agent"--Leslie Howard and Kay Francis in the screen version of Bruce Lockhart's exciting story of diplomatic struggles and intrigue in revolutionary Russia. The film, unfortunately has been moviefied and is not as thrilling as the book...
...atmosphere and threadbare splendor of a little Kentucky hamlet in the reconstruction days is brought to the screen in the cinema version of Irvin S. Cobb's "Judge Priest." Old men in tattered gray jackets sit whittling on the court-house steps; bearded jaws work the faster at mention of how the Yankees field at Chickamauga; and in the barber shop across the street loafers nudge each other as the girl in crinoline sweeps...
Last week the whole cinema industry seethed with the kind of undercover excitement that theatregoers never see on the screen. Producers and exhibitors called in their lawyers, talked of stopping license fees to sound-recording equipment makers until the situation was clarified. Sound technicians wondered if they would have to dust off obsolete recording methods for emergency service. Reason was that bald, long-nosed William Fox, armed with a U. S. Supreme Court patent decision, was out of the well-lined hole into which he was cudgeled four years ago. This half-forgotten ex-newsboy and shoe-polish hawker...
...best laugh in the picture comes from an old newspaper in which Marshovia's King, preparing to abdicate, wraps up his crown. Happiness Ahead (Warner). When Warner Brothers announced last summer that they had discovered an ingenue who would be "one of the five biggest stars of the screen within a year," it was surprising to learn that their discovery was Josephine Hutchinson. A thin, pretty girl with red dish hair, sherry-colored eyes and a dimpled chin, Josephine Hutchinson had been exposed to the full view of Hollywood scouts for upwards of eight years as leading lady...
...Mardi Gras. "The Defense Rests"--all about a master criminal lawyer who wins every case he handles and ends up in the loving arms of his blonde secretary. On Sunday the change of program brings the very excellent "One Night of Love" with the captivating Grace Moore. Also the screen adaptation of Bruce Lockhart's exciting story of his experiences as British consul in Moscow in 1917 and 1918, "British Agent...