Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that I might get back on my feet again. . . . It's like leaving home to leave the studio after all these years, but I know it is the best thing for me to do." She declared that after resting, she would become a free lance again, mentioned screen offers from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Howard Hughes, a bid from the Shuberts in Manhattan, bandied words regarding a 20-week stage tour at $20,000 a week. Also, the "It Girl" announced with a straight face: "I am going to write the story of my life-everything that...
...Free Soul (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). There is nothing on the stage or screen more impressive than a Barrymore indicating degenerate addiction to alcohol-a condition which causes the eyes to pop out and the nostrils to grow, though almost imperceptibly, wider. In this picture, it is Lionel's adroitness at such tricks which enables you to believe in incidents, which, however convincingly they be arranged, are basically somewhat ridiculous. He impersonates Stephen Ashe, a brilliant and bibulous lawyer whose daughter is so much influenced by his eccentric conduct that she sees nothing wrong in having an affair with...
Lover Come Back (Columbia). When Cinemactress Betty Bronson appeared as Peter Pan six years ago, she surprised admirers of Maude Adams by making a success comparable to Miss Adams's. Last year she temporarily retired from the screen, went on a vaudeville tour...
...long enough time to let the batter circle the bases. Sheldon hit safely, after which Martynik took a brace and struck out Mays and Taylor. Passes to McCaffrey and McGrath filled the bases, but Cragan pulled his team out of a bad hole by hurling himself high against the screen behind the batter's box to capture a foul knocked by Ticknor, thus ending the inning...
...Jordan convince one of their worthiness from the start. The former was particularly as home in his role of the young wastrel, having appeared before Boston audiences in the stage version of the story last winter. The picture also marks the return of Thomas Meighan, long absent, to the screen. The comeback of a one-time favorite is always a precarious matter, but it looks as though Meighan might make the grade if he is given roles so congenial as that of the Irish trainer in Young Sinners...