Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colored show called "Harlem on Parade" with forty sepia stars, is announced as the stage attraction for the Keith-Boston commencing tomorrow, while the screen features "Madame...
Starting at the Metropolitan theatre on Friday is James Cagney's latest Warner production "Jimmy The Gent" with Bette Davis. The picture is from an original screen story written especially for Cagney and presents the popular star in the type of role the movie public want to see him portray. The story is based on a new angle of a "smart guy's" get rich quick scheme and is filled with laughs and thrilling situations. Supporting the two stars is a cast of prominent screen players headed by Alice White, Allen Jenkins, Arthur Hohl and Allen Dinchart...
...Tejeda dodged and twisted from door to pillar. The 25 dodged and twisted with him. Bang, bang! Nicks suddenly appeared in the plaster wall beside Tejeda who ducked back. Shouting, running, stopping and fir ing, the 100 "regulars" came on in fierce pursuit. But always a dodging, criss crossing screen of men ran between them and Tejeda. The town of Nicolas Romero was suddenly the field for a sinister football game. Tejeda's life was the ball and he carried it for all he was worth. His 25 stalwarts were the interference, doing the blocking and taking-out, making...
...Deaf, Rev. August H. Staubitz, arose. With lightning fingers he signaled his flock that they were about to behold a lecture on the Passion Play of Oberammergau, for which each of them had paid 10?. The lights went out save for one beam from a shaded lamp near the screen. The lecturer began flashing magic lantern slides, explaining them in a booming voice. An interpreter, his hands flickering continuously in the beam of light, translated at top speed. Across the screen flew scenes from the Passion Play. When he uttered a guttural German name the lecturer interposed: "That...
...flayed the State Legislature, with the intimation that Speaker Woodfin Ernest Rogers Sr. was accepting bribes. The writer signed him self "One Who Believes in Honest Gov ernment, a member of the House of Representatives." Said he: "Who tells the Speaker what bills to be killed? . . . Someone behind the screen is pulling the strings." Coming, as it appeared, from inside the Capitol at Frankfort, the letter stung the Legislature in a tender spot. A committee formed to investigate lobbying wired the Courier-Journal for the name of "One Who Believes in Honest Government," threatened to subpena Acting Editor Vance Armentrout...