Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deputy marshal in Colorado. In 1910, when moving pictures were still flickering violently, he was offered $150 a week to appear in Selig films. Followed, mostly for Fox, some 180 Wild Westerns with 100 more or less leading ladies playing opposite him. Actor Mix retired from screen work in 1926, traveled abroad with his horse, returned to join Sells-Floto Circus at a salary reputedly $15,000 per week. Besides his circus appearances, his newsworthy activities have since included getting divorced by Mrs. Victoria Forde Mix, who charged mental cruelty, "loudness in public," pistol twirling; getting sued...
...Tough to be Famous (Warner). No sooner had the stage turned to the Lindbergh saga for a new pattern (Happy Landing, TIME, April 4) than the screen did likewise. Perhaps the screen turned first, for It's Tough to be Famous was withheld from the public for several weeks because of the Lindbergh kidnapping. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., captain of a disabled submarine, having saved the members of his crew is prepared to stay submerged and die. Rescuers pry him off the bottom of the sea and into a more embarrassing if less dangerous predicament. He is welcomed ashore...
...frequent intervals with demands for his capture. As he is marched off to serve his sentence for manslaughter, you are assured that matters will be satisfactory to all parties when he is free. You are also certain, throughout the picture, that William Haines is not yet capable of emotional screen work...
...pale full moon turned rufous early one morning last week. The earth had eclipsed it. The moon and earth have no light of their own. Both reflect light from the sun. The moon looks yellow because it has no atmosphere to screen the sun's rays and hide its general brownness.- (The earth's atmosphere makes the earth shine blue and 40 times more brightly than the moon.) When the moon gets between the earth and the sun and totally eclipses the sun, as it will next Aug. 31, the swift path of the moon's shadow...
...room attic the family sleep; downstairs they live their quiet family life. They have no telephone, no electric lights, no servants, but they entertain a few friends now & then. Poet Jeffers chose the bed downstairs by the sea-window for a good deathbed . . . when the patient daemon behind the screen of sea-rock and sky thumps with his staff, and calls thrice: "Come Jeffers...