Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Screen comedians reach a crisis when they graduate from two-reel comedies to six-reel feature films. Funnymen Laurel & Hardy emerge from the crisis as funny as ever but no funnier. Their incapacities, hilarious in earlier and briefer studies, seem protracted in Pardon Us: they have added nothing to their formula except vulgarity. Funny shots: Laurel & Hardy making friends with the bloodhounds which have been sent to trail them; sing ing "Good morning, dear teacher," in the prison school; going to bed in the same cot so awkwardly that they break...
...into one of the first great crusading journals 17 years later by Butterick Publishing Co., discontinued in January 1930, last week Everybody's was revived as a cheap true-story vehicle. It will be published as "the magazine of real life stories" by Publisher Alfred Cohen (Screenland, Silver Screen, etc.). Cost...
...fraudulent stock transactions, chiefly at the expense of credulous Catholics. Nicknamed "Dinty," Funnyman Dowling calls his 4-ft.-10-in. wife "Peanut," "Snook," "Brat," considers her "a great artist." She is the only woman whose name has appeared in lights above that of Ziegfeld Follies: Their income, from stage, screen and radio enterprises, is augmented by Funnyman Dowling's holdings in a Pasadena, Calif. sausage factory...
Engaged. Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle, 44, cinema's oldtime fat funnyman, now director of comedies under the name of "William Goodrich" for Educational Films Corp.; and Addie McPhail, 24, cinemactress. Funnyman Arbuckle left the screen ten years ago after being acquitted of manslaughter in the death of Cinemactress Virginia Rappe. Last month readers of Photoplay magazine voted for his return (TIME, June...
...Washington the State Department filed a complaint with the Canadian Government against rum-runners from Nova Scotia who had disabled a pursuing Coast Guard crew off Nantucket last month by putting chemicals into their motors, spraying a noxious smoke screen from the exhaust. Rum chasers hereafter will carry gas masks...