Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readjust- ments to be made. Would the world which now mourns them welcome back the brave from their sleep? With such portentous questions as these is Miracle at Verdun, the Theatre Guild's latest opus, concerned. To produce its ambitious piece, the Guild has employed a triple cinema screen, three sound-film projectors, seven scenes, 17 loudspeakers, a company of 50 actors...
Neatly capitalized on a modernistic fagade in Manhattan, the word Trans-Lux last week made its first public appearance in the world of entertainment. Trans-Lux means: 1) a machine to project images onto a screen from behind it; and 2) Trans-Lux theatres...
Trans-Lux projection has advantages over the common method of projecting film from in front of a screen because it can be used in a low-ceilinged, fully lighted room. A Trans-Lux lens placed eight feet behind a screen projects a picture eight feet wide. Standard film can be used. It passes over the wide-angled Trans-Lux lens which throws the image on the reverse side of a translucent screen through which it is visible from the front. Ordinary screens for movies are opaque, made out of heavy cloth painted with certain chemicals. Screens used in Trans...
Percy Furber is president of Trans-Lux Daylight Picture Screen Corp. which owns 40% of the stock in Trans-Lux Movies Corp. Fifty per cent more of the stock is owned by RKO, the rest by the president of Trans-Lux Movies, Courtland Smith, on whose first theatre the new word made its appearance last week in large violet letters. This theatre, about (he size of a small drugstore, has 158 comfortable arm-seats, a turnstile in front and a svelte modernistic interior in which newsreels now flicker from 10 a. m. till midnight. There are no ushers; a ticket...
...next and last division of the book is entitled, "Lamentations." The chief lament is the talking picture. Like many of the modern critics of the legitimate stage, Mr. Nathan chooses to turn up his nose and snort rather than pay any attention to the potentialities peculiar to the screen. He writes, "What the phonograph is to the opera, the lithograph to painting, the plaster of paris cast to sculpture and a doll's house to architecture, the talkie will ever continue to be to the drama." The chief, and only explicable objection he has to the passion flowers of Hollywood...