Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employes in their demand for an audit of studio books as a preliminary to the wage cut. After a stormy meeting of the Academy's directors Cinemactor Conrad Nagel, the Academy's president, resigned last week. Cinema writers got a union organizer to help them reform the Screen Writers' Guild. Its 312 members agreed to have no dealings with the Bureau, planned to prevent producers from buying material from non-Guild members...
Miss Moran's career includes many stage and screen parts in the United States and abroad. She spent five years in Hollywood where she was a success- ful ingenue star, playing the part of the daughter in "Stella Dallas," and more recently was leading lady in "Transatlantic" and "Men in Her Life...
...also a forward step in the cinema world to put Miss Diana Wynyard in a leading role, and it is encouraging to see the star of "Cavaleade" already keeping the best company which the screen world can afford, Lewis Stone, whose praise has always been insufficient. Phillips Holmes, of the sharp aesthetic face, is the man in whose breast the conflict of principle works. He is the internationally-minded American youth, who returns from his chemical studies in Geneva, to find America embarking on the second "war to end war" in 1940. His birth was the result...
Turning to the screen we find "Cavalcade," at popular prices at the Metropolitan while "Gabriel Over the While House," Katherine Hepburn in "Christopher Strong," and "42nd Street" are still in the immediate vicinity. "Cavalcade" and "42nd Street" illustrate the increasingly effective use of musical themes and orchestral backgrounds in building up emotional effects in harmony with the picture. Thus one of the greatest virtues of the silent film has been resurrected. The orchestral background is the 1933 prototype of the organ which played "Oh Susanna" for the "Covered Wagon" and "Marche Slav" when brontosauri stalked through "The Lost World...
Buckley Joyce Thomas is the bellowing, ranting, go-getter, international correspondent of the Chicago Globe. He appears on the screen captured by Riffs; he is rescued by the French, to the accompaniment of bullets, and grumbling by the agent of the Times. He goes to Paris, is decorated, and leaves for Moscow with his employer's inamorata, a girl with a soul. There he tricks the members of other papers, sits with Stalin, and generally conducts the sensational journalism of which he is an advocate. He is encouraged by Kate, a newspaperwoman, who, rather obviously, really cares...