Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Living, last week a cinemansion was packing in well-bred audiences who seldom stoop to cinema, to witness Cavalcade, his episodic pageant of empire not yet legitimately staged in the U, S. Further down the street the shadow of Claudette Colbert was to be seen fluttering across a screen version (Tonight is Ours) of one of Playwright Coward's most dismal failures, The Queen Was in the Parlour. Wherever he went last year-with the possible exception of the Brazilian jungles-during an enviably carefree junket, he could hear tunes he had written for Bittersweet, and the more recent...
...clock tonight in the large Common Room of the Freshman Union the 1936 Union Committee will sponsor its initial motion picture night for the first year men, following a successful precedent set by the class of 1935. "The Floorwalker" one of Charles Chaplin's outstanding triumphs of the silent screen and the "Olympic Games of 1932," two reels of sporting films taken at Los Angeles during last summer, are the headliners on the evening's program...
...production. Charles Laughton gives the best, but unfortunately shortest, performance; Charlie Ruggles makes a very amusing clerk in a chinaware store; Wynne Gibson overacts as the prostitute; Alison Skipworth and W. C. Fields provide much needed comic relief; and May Robson, in one of her first appearances on the screen, gives one of the best pieces of acting in the picture. Individually, the shots are generally well-directed and effective, but as a whole the picture has too little continuity, too little of its best actors, and much too little of many excellent directors...
...devotion to her teacher is regarded as a far more heinous infraction of the rules than passing notes. Possibly because most of them did not understand German, U. S. filmgoers were struck by the shy fragility of this relationship. The sense of grey imprisonment, so successfully captured on the screen, is almost entirely lost on the stage. As if to atone for lack of convincing atmosphere, those responsible for Girls in Uniform have made the entente between Manuela and the teacher unwholesomely explicit-a doubtful benefit. And to cap that, Manuela of the play actually manages to destroy herself instead...
...Telegraph is a 100-year-old paper catering exclusively to showfolk and followers of the turf. At some periods it has handled general news but for the past two years it has been bound by an inflexible rule to print only news of stage, screen, racetrack. It was probably the only daily in the U. S. which carried not one line about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, to which it was unable to find a Broadway '"angle...