Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the most burningly vivid and terrible newsreel ever filmed, the assassination of King Alexander, and of Barthou, and the subsequent lynching of the assassin, recreates in full on the screen the tragedy of Marseilles. No one should miss seeing this...
...Madame Bovary" been chosen as the first in the annual series of selected French talking pictures shown free of charge to Harvard and Radcliffe students during the winter. Gustav Flaubert's novel has been adapted for screen production by Jean Renoir, a brother of the artist Renoir and of the actor who takes the part of Bovary...
...cinema public which considers Jackie Cooper's pout irresistibly affecting, Producer Sol Lesser quite properly thought it unnecessary to make this picture a faithful transcription of its original. Admirers of George Wilbur Peck's 1883 classic may therefore be disappointed to find it projected upon the screen as an up-to-date tearjerker, in which young Bill Peck experiences every childhood misery known to Hollywood, from a cuff on the ear to forced separation from his mongrel dog. When he writes an essay to the effect that Mr. Peck (Thomas Meighan) is an ideal father, he learns that...
...made Society the villain for having endowed Clyde Griffiths with a sordid background and for tormenting him with emotional stresses with which he was not equipped to deal. (The film version, starring Phillips Holmes and Sylvia Sidney, angered Dreiser to the point of trying to keep it off the screen because, he complained, it slighted the Dreiser sociology...
...film rendition of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," now being shown at the Metropolitan Theatre, the whimsical flavor of the Alice Hegan Rice classic has been brought to the screen intact. It is a story of life in a small Ohio town during the later buggy and moustache cup period, only a few decades removed in time, but centuries away in spirit. The peg-top trousers and bombazine gowns, the town drunkard and the cruel banker, even the glorious extravaganza at the local "opera house" all bespeak that happy epoch before the pestilence known as Radio had standardized...