Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Love" the very best of this year's musical films. On the merit of her voice alone Miss Moore has won a high place in the Metropolitan Opera's list of sopranos and in this, her first moving picture, she proves to be even more delightful on the screen than on the stage. She is deservedly the toast of New York, a beautiful lady with a glorious voice...
University: "She Loves Me Not"--Princeton supplies nearly as excellent entertainment on the screen as it did on the stage, and in addition, there is Bing Crosby. "The Human Side" limps along...
...NIGHT OF LOVE--This one misses A rating simply because of a silly title. Probably the first motion picture to bring opera to the screen without losing its effectiveness and still retain the average movie-goer's interest. Grace Moore in splendid voice. (Tullio Carminati Lyle Talbot...
Surprising as it may seem the combination of Crawford and Gable has succeeded in turning out a really good picture. "Chained", which at present graces the screen at Loew's Orpheum is a well-directed, smooth running film which should amuse everybody including the kiddies though it is not especially reommended for their consumption...
Belle of the Nineties (Paramount). When almost overnight Mae West became an immensely profitable symbol of screen naughtiness by padding her hips and uttering double-entendres without moving her upper lip, Paramount officials decided that she knew what she was doing. They gave her a free hand with her pictures, under the congenial supervision of Producer William Le Baron. The completion of her third picture last June coincided precisely with the peak of cinema reform agitation by the Legion of Decency. The Hays office called its original title, It Ain't No Sin, "dangerous." The New York State Censors...