Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schmidt confessed. Louis Chambon, the unfrocked priest, had threatened to peach on Georges Sarret. Chambon was lured with his mistress to the house, and while Catherine Schmidt kept a motorcycle engine roaring in the cypress shaded courtyard to drown all noise, Georges Sarret shot priest & mistress from behind a screen. They drove into Marseilles where Murderer Sarret purchased a bathtub, then sent the terrified Schmidt sisters back to wander for three nights about the house with its two reeking corpses. On the fourth day Georges Sarret returned with 26 gallons of sulphuric acid in the back...
...surprise concert last week was not so hilarious as Chicago's. Conductor Serge Koussevitzky and his men dressed up in 18th Century wigs and ruffles, played with candles lighting their music racks, disappeared one by one until only Koussevitzky was left at the spinet and on a screen flashed the lines: "You have heard Haydn's Farewell Symphony. May your orchestra never play its own." Surprise came when Koussevitzky announced that he had never really heard his own double-bass concerto. He went and sat in the audience while Ludwig Juht, one of the orchestra's bull...
...movie "Carolina", will deal informally with some of the problems of the dramatist who works with material unusual to the stage. He covers a wide range of subject matter, from his own special milieu, the folk-play of South Carolina to the flashier contributions of the silver screen...
...sincere story in "Men in White," of the young interne's struggle against the physician's code loses little of its power on the screen. Although the problem of adaptation was made easier by the comparative unimportance of the love motive, able direction is chiefly responsible for its success...
...treatment of the movie differs from the play only in one important respect. Where on the stage it was a sparkling uncut gem, on the screen the edges have been nicely polished off, but the lustre has lost a little of its brilliance. This is most obvious in the difference between the interpretations of Alexander Kirkland and Clark Gable of the young interne, Dr. Ferguson. It was through the shoddy places in Kirkland's portrayal that the sincerity of his performance stood out. Gable brings to the movies a capable, even performance, but seems to lose a little of that...