Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject of the lecture will be "Writing for the Stage and for the Screen." Following the talk, Sherwood will answer questions and hold a discussion period. This is one of the few open lectures sponsored yearly by the Cambridge School of the Drama...
...Royal Family Of Broadway", the screen version of the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman, is not so much a motion picture as it is a photograph of a play. Being written for the legitimate stage, the Hollywood director has done nothing to adapt the original script to the peculiarities of the camera. The result is satisfactory in as much as it fulfills the purpose of the authors as they wrote for the stage, but all of the possibilities of a picture were not realized...
...made his appearance; all of which was a considerable help to a limping plot. The hero of the love element, fortunately not very important, was best characterized by a remark of a young lady in the audience who remarked in a loud tone as he first appeared on the screen, "Wait until she sees him!" The surprise could not have been over-whelmingly pleasant...
...Hotel St. George in Brooklyn, erected three years ago by Sperry Gyroscope Co. to guide aviators and to advertise the hotel. Recently the Department of Commerce ruled that only beacons actually on an established airway might use white lights; all others must be red. The hotel placed a red screen over the lens of its searchlight, but the rays were so weakened that advertising value was nil. Last month the light was discontinued. Exceptions to the red-light rule: the Lindbergh Beacon atop Chicago's Palmolive building; the revolving light on Washington's Wardman Park Hotel...
...Frederick March's rise as an actor of no mean significance has been most pleasant. He is one of the men of the screen who can say "I love you" and "Oh, but you don't understand" with a certain amount of restraint that assures you that you are not listening to someone with mythological attributes. He has acquired a certain savoir faire which makes for a restful enjoyment of his performance...