Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ingredient necessary for "slap-stick" that has not been included in its bundle of tricks. To begin with there is the incomparable Marie Dressler in Perfect form, and here less gifted foil, Polly Moran. Add to these a husband mild to the point of meekness, a brace of typical screen brats, all the esoteric paraphernalia of a beauty shop, a sub-plot that furnishes the inevitable love interest and it may be seen that the picture could hardly mis-fire...
...talkies, to their credit, have brought French, German and other languages to the Boston screen without the stigma of being educational." Since they are essentially pictures and must depend largely for their success on movement and pantomime, one can ordinarily understand what is going on even though the spoken words are unintelligible. Music, of course, is a universal language and a dictionary need not be thumbed when the hero is singing a love song. The admission prices, moreover, are usually so modest that you can afford to take a chance on being delighted or bored. But, after all, what Boston...
...concert will be given in Dunster House tonight at 7.15 o'clock by Mrs. Carl Lamson, soprano, and Mr. Carl Lamson, pianist. The program will be as follows: Two Venetian Songs; "Frubling-snacht," by Schumann; "Ich Trage Mein Winne," "All Mein Gedanken," and "Heimlichen Auffordering," by Strauss; "On a Screen," "The Highwayman," and "Looking Glass River," by Carpenter; "Ah, Love but a Day," by Beach; four Negro spirituals; and "The Nightingale," by Whelpley...
...rules the silver screen...
...legitimate stage. "The Criminal Code," which is now playing at the University, is distinctly an exception to this rule, for here the movie director has removed all of the elements peculiar to the stage and has adapted the plot with considerable skill to the rapidity and scope of the screen. He has not allowed himself to be confined by the picture frame of a theatre, but instead has incorporated into the sound and film the whole large scene of prison life...