Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nave of the Chapel is to be separated from the choir by a wooden screen, so that the choir alone will serve as a chapel on week-days, the whole building being used only on Sundays and special occasions. The choir, situated in the East end of the Chapel, is so planned that it will constitute a small chapel in itself, the only changes from the ordinary layout being the addition of some movable seats and the moving of the organ consoles back into niches in the wall, to make more room in the choir...
...Screen writers are much less often publicized than playwrights. Kubec Glasmon and John Bright have been sufficiently able, original and influential to make themselves noteworthy. They arrived in Hollywood less than a year ago with the unfinished manuscript for The Public Enemy, then called Blood & Beer, which they had already tried to sell to Manhattan theatrical producers. Glasmon, a onetime druggist who says he used to own stores in Chicago, is short, soft-voiced, stocky. He has a wide knowledge of Chicago's underworld, admits that "Glasmon" is a nom-de-plumc, saves newspaper clippings of criminal happenings, like...
...Film itself is taken from a scenario prepared by the Paramount Company's writers and typifies the simple French cinemas of provincial life. It was chosen as a contrast to "Le Million", an urbane and more sophisticated example of screen...
...universities are moving to a higher plane of intellectual life. Those who have been critical are seeing fruits of their persistent preaching. It cannot be doubted that the present period of necessary economy will have good effects in the quality of college experience. The "college of the moving picture screen" is disappearing. --New York Times...
...prayer! Hastily Promoter Rodeheaver's secretary pointed out that since this cinema was primarily to supplement the local church service a local minister would be present to lead prayer. Also, people who reverentially bowed their heads during prayer would in any case be unable to see the screen. A vote was taken. The ecclesiastics decided, 12 to 3, that prayers were best left...