Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasure to report that Alice Brady has finally learned that overacting may become monotonous; in "Stage Mother" she offers her best performance since she has come to the screen. Maureen O'Sullivan is pleasing as the young ballet danseuse...
Castor tells me that the appearance of Hoover Geheimrat on a Boston silver screen today was the touchstone for a truly inspiriting burst of applause. It was almost as if the new era had not already become the old one, and brought back many memories of the days before the Geheimrat was a grand symbol of spoof, a kind of national jest in apostolic succession to the mother-in-law. Castor diagnosed this as a popular reaction to personal success after personal failure, a sense of comfortable relief among us that he will not be the traditional ex-president, heavy...
...Solitaire Man," a screen drama adapted from the play by Bella and Samuel Spewack, directed by Jack Conway and presented by Metro-Goldwin-Mayer at the Loew's State Theatre with the following cast: Oliver Herbert Marshall Mrs. Hopkins Mary Boland Wallace Lionel Atwill Mrs. Vail May Robson Helen Elizabeth Allen Bascom Ralph Forbes Mrs. Peabody Lucille Gleason Mr. Peabody Robert McWade...
These who saw Herbert Marshall in "Trouble in Paradise" will recall that he is admirable as a thief with a sense of humour. In "The Solitaire Man" he is more sentimental that cynical, but he does his part with enough enthusiasm to be amusing. Would be prognosticators of screen stars should take all interest in Elizabeth Allen: also is attractive, acts with little effort and speaks her lines with assurance so that the words are audible and pronounced correctly. This latter quality is a definite asset. The supporting cast is excellent, especially Mary Roland who is as boisterous...
...here until this job is done." Meanwhile he announced plans for giving the Blue Eagle claws by arousing public opinion: drives to sign up consumers all over the land; 1,500,000 volunteer workers; 100,000,000 "pieces of literature"; a big radio program with stage and screen stars; Alfred E. Smith, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Glenn Frank, Walter Chrysler, Senator La Follette, General Harbord, William Green, General Atterbury, Lewis A. Johnson (of the American Legion)-all teaching the Blue Eagle to scream...