Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hullabaloo which it caused. As a caricature of the cinema and of cloying movie-fan magazines it scarcely transcended the unconscious absurdity of the fan magazines themselves. Plainly Publisher Delacorte did not want to be too rough with the industry which supports three of his publications?Film Fun, Screen Romances, Modern Screen?the last the second most successful (after Ballyhoo} of his string of fourteen. Some features of Hullabaloo's first issue...
...playing in a local nickelodeon for $12 a week. Scarcely tall enough to see the screen over the battered upright piano, she rattled off loud, hectic accompaniments for villains, soft, trembling tunes for injured heroines. Occasionally from her place in the pit she would sing a song or two. Her singing got her a $50-a-week job at Mellone's Restaurant in New Haven...
...year (TIME, May 19, 1930), one R. H. Robinson sold a New Testament to a traffic policeman. At a cinema performance of Ben Hur at a fair in Mollet, Spain, a colporteur stood by the door crying: "The Holy Gospels! With all the texts that are thrown on the screen in the film!" He sold...
...fields of science, the films have proven their value in illustrating processes that are not susceptible to demonstration in the ordinary way. For example, the physics class can see the intangible force of magnetism made concrete by animated drawings, while the biology class can watch, clearly enough on the screen, the moving forms of a tiny organism and the mysterious division of a living cell...
Loew's Orpheum--Greta Garbo teams up with popular film gangster and screen idol Clark Gable, to produce picture with demure title "Susan Lenox...