Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Screen...
...Including Film Fun, Screen Romances, I Confess, etc.; also Modern Romances. Modern Screen Magazine (sold exclusively through Kresge and Kress stores...
Ladies' Man (Paramount). Rupert Hughes got a fancy price for screen rights to his novel, serialized in Editor Ray Long's Cosmopolitan, but this little story might just as easily have been adapted from the drooling lyric of the current foxtrot, "Just a Gigolo." A few weeks' experience as a bond salesman was what made William Powell turn gig, and he did well for a while on the money received from pawning jewelry given him by admirers. He vacillated agreeably between Kay Francis, Olive Tell and Carole Lombard ; he had even fallen in love with Miss Francis...
...They Wanted. Before every premiere she buys herself an expensive present. "If the play's a flop I'm comforted; if it's a success I'll have celebrated." She likes champagne cocktails, smokes Gold Flake cigarets, says "on the films" instead of "on the screen," and in general has acquired more British than Alabama mannerisms and moral attitudes. This is her first U. S. picture...
...book of Nobel Prize Winner Sinclair Lewis has been effective when filmed. Reason: he is documentary rather than dramatic. Now Samuel Goldwyn has bought screen rights to Arrowsmith, will adapt it for Ronald Colman. Said Lewis: "Arrowsmith is my favorite. ... I know a notable work will be made...