Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...innocent younsters into prison, the girl to be held for life the boy to the hanged. There are harrowing days of suspense while the two look for evidences to clear them. There are prison walls in Hollywood's best décor. Shadows of the gallows darken the screen, as the lovers say their rather affecting farewells and no negro atone crusher bursts out into "Deep River," as this reviewer feared...
...last minute arrangements the Executive committee has procured Lillian Roth, popular stage and screen actress to appear at the dance as well as to sing during the dinner at 12.30 o'clock. Miss Roth was star of the Vanities last year, and has just completed a vaudeville contract, and has previously played in the movies and on Broadway...
...pick to shreds the elements of the film, the silly story, the crude camerawork, but where on the screen can you match the spirit of the whole? Where on the screen can you find such good spirits to make hearts and steins overflow...
...Charles Bickford, she over-estimates his drunkenness, and is caught red-handed. To save here self from jail, she puts herself in his power; and a particularly unpleasant power it is. Mr. Bickford, though often cast as a hero, is the most disagreeable exponent of brute force on the screen. Unlike Mr. George Bancroft, his forcefulness is simply illmannered, his strength merely churlish...
...Trade Menace. Earlier this winter Correspondent Knickerbocker was again on the move, this time touring Germany in company with James Abbe, a onetime society photographer. Their discoveries, meaty copy for the Post & Ledger, appeared in 24 daily installments which were concluded last week. Title: BEHIND THE GERMAN SMOKE SCREEN...