Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have 2,500 ft. of motion pictures which I am endeavoring to have Floyd Gibbons syncronize for me to release on the screen, called- ''The Beginning of a New America, or the man that Hoover forgot, taken from the siege of the Capitol. It shows the Bonus Army from the beginning to the end-it happened I was financing the taking of a picture to raise money to furnish the food for the Army over the winter, when the eviction came. My pictures show the burning of American flags-and the burning was not done by the Bonus...
Paramount--"The Big Broadcast," a dreary parade of Radio's luminaries, who shine very dimly indeed on the screen. One "Bing" Crosby booms and sighs, one Kate Smith yearns audibly in song, one Stuart Erwin falls over things. A dire prophecy of television...
...first inning off young pitcher Johnny Allen. After that the rumble and crash of Yankee bats made 17 hits, discouraged four Chicago pitchers. In the first, the side-whiskered Bush was knocked out of the box; in the third. Lazzeri smashed a homerun over the right field bleacher screen scoring two runs; in the sixth. Gehrig singled for two runs; in the seventh five hits made four more runs; and in the ninth, when the Yankees were four runs ahead, they made four more, two on Lazzeri's second homerun. Score: New York 13, Chicago...
...Bankhead. Word for word the story was authentic and veracious save for the necessary deletion of certain unprintable words and expressions which Miss Bankhead used and I omitted. Otherwise, the content of the story was exact, as she very well knows. I have been interviewing the players of the screen and stage for the past 19 years at the rate of from two to four a week and over this period of time my entire output has been published. This is the first time in my long experience that my veracity has been questioned...
...pews, of pine, are painted white and the windows are of plain glass, in keeping with the Colonial architecture. The pulpit, dedicated to the memory of Phillips Brooks '55, and the crest-adorned wooden screen behind it, which separates the nave from the choir, are of oak. It is in the choir, which perpetuates the name of Appleton Chapel, that the regular morning services will ordinarily be held...