Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when there hovers in the back-ground of this super-picture a touching drama and a powerful idea, written down by Somerset Maugham for his play of the same name, the intellectual man, the "well-read" man of the movies, will find it worth his while to see this screen version of a famous play,--emotions be damned...
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Freshmen who do not attend the Yale game will have a chance to gain a visual impression of the plays as they occur form an electric Grid-o-Graph which will be installed in the lower common room of the Union. The apparatus consists of a large screen upon which the course of the ball, the numbers of the players, and the play used in represented by electric lights flashing...
...seven short stories (of which only three have not before been published) will help fence in more securely her well-established claim to her Kentucky cloudland. Readers who pine for action had best look elsewhere. Nothing much happens in these stories; they are a mirror, not a silver-screen. Some of the reflections: A mountain boy, fired by his teacher with a vague desire for "learning," sets off across the hills to see the world. On the way he meets an old man coming back, sick for home. The boy listens to the old man uneasily, but he goes...
...smoke-screen has obscured the whole underlying strife of which the case is a symptom. Race hatred is a canker present no less in the vitals of America than in India. South of the Mason-Dixon line the Negro is deprived of almost every constitutional and natural right to which man may lay claim. Lynchings and packed juries are so common where the Negro is concerned that these evils have never been subject of much comment. Whether the Southern white is right or wrong it is impossible thus cursorily to determine, but one of the great unfaced and dangerous issues...