Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planning to pur chase First National studios from Warner Brothers for a new company, with Mr. Schulberg in charge of production. Harry Cohn became president of Columbia in place of Joseph Brandt, planned to pay some of his scenarists and actors picture royalties. A new cooperative producing organization, the Screen Guild, headed by President Michael Charles Levee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, last week prepared to start its first production, Chocolate, which Cecil Blount DeMille will direct...
Authorities in Hollywood have been eager to secure the rights to the Seabury-Hofstadter success and they have been in constant communication with authorities in the East. However before the play can go on the screen a suitable title must be selected for it. Whether it is to be called "Much Ado About Nothing", as Mayor Walker would have it or "Measure for Measure" as Mr. Seabury prefers depends upon the decision of a Mr. Roosevelt in Albany, to whom the matter has been referred for arbitration. Mr. Roosevelt, it has been learned, has left home, leaving a message that...
...other movie must be considered at great length for it is immeasurably worse. "Shop Angel" is the name that appears on the screen but one is forced, upon a close examination of the heroine, to feel that the unpleasant word "worn" was deleted from the title by the careful producers. A very dull work it is, that seems to go on merely because the company had about five thousand feet of film to use up before declaring bankruptcy. It is all about a good girl who works in a company and who, despite the warnings of her friends, goes...
...hero. Lil Dagover is also on view as Tsar-bait. The Hollywood technique of getting the maximum out of a gag or situation is notably lacking in Congress Dances, hence its U. S. success is doubtful. Good shots: Metternich in a darkroom reading code despatches against an illuminated glass screen; legs in the ballet; the fake Tsar doing fancy needlework, singing the "Volga Boat Song...
...state of acting in the American cinema. In both movies star players are featured, who cannot under any condition be classed as actors; they do not exercise any dramatic talent, for they possess none. Their whole efforts are centered upon walking impressively back and forth across the screen in parts which have been selected especially for them, parts which they can act because sympathetic to their own nature. Both stories are of back origin, both leading characters are but puppets, and if one movie is less bad than the other it is so only because its direction and photography...