Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will Rogers in "David Harum" is announced as the next film feature for R. K. O. Keith's commencing Saturday. The screen play, following closely the typically American theme of the novel, concerns itself with the life of a shrewd and ruthless horse-trader. His dealings with the people in the small town in which he lives are cold-hearted and unethical. But a young man who is employed as a teller in his bank learns of his concealed sympathy for the poor, and realizes that underneath a hard crust he really has a soft heart. Because of his poor...
...years, "Queen Christina" is having its first popular priced showing at Loew's State theatre this week. The film has already been acclaimed as one of the outstanding achievements of the current season and is unusual in that it reunites the glamorous Garbo with John Gilbert after a screen separation of five years. Their scenes together are reminiscent of such former pictures as "Flesh and the Devil" and "Woman of Affairs...
...Follies). He made $1,000 a week, owned four Cadillac cars with a chauffeur for each, spent $75 telephoning his mother to ask whether to buy his sister a $36 dress, urged producers to cast him as Othello. Annoyed by rumors that he was as lazy off the screen as on, he grew over-diligent, insisted on writing his own lines, directing his own scenes. In 1931, Stepin Fetchit ceased to be employed in Hollywood. Last autumn Winfield Sheehan of Fox was smart enough to rehire him. In Carolina he appeared as the stumbling, fumbling "cornfield nigger" dressed...
...show called "Midway Nights" featuring Rosalia and her fan dance, Mona Lesllie's "nudity in gold" which created such a furore in the "Streets of Paris" at the Fair, Andrini Brothers from the "Spanish Pavilion," Prosper and Maret from "Oriental Village," and Dave Lee, the Midway comic. On the screen the newest Fox Film, "Coming Out Party," is presented with Frances Dee and Gene Raymond heading the cast...
Charges of sabotage in handling army planes have not been publicly proved and the airplane companies have caused investigations to be made to determine the source of such rumors, which may have been started as a smoke screen behind the tragic deaths of army flyers...