Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treat to President Hoover to see himself in newsreels periodically shown at the White House. But he may well be startled to behold himself and Mrs. Hoover performing on the East Room screen if Universal Up for Murder, now in production, is given a White House run. To play the part of "Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover," Patrolman Tom Jensen received special leave of absence from the Los Angeles police force. Jessie Perry acts Mrs. Hoover. They have nothing to do with the plot. They simply sit in a box at a Washington ball. In the story, laid in Washington...
...Whispers (United Artists). This is the first time that a mystery melodrama has been put on a wide screen. It is not a completely successful idea. There are times when the big background gives chances for suspense that an ordinary screen would have lost, as when, with the whole cast assembled in the foreground, the camera does not have to look away from them to show the horrible manifestation that has frightened them. But in scenes involving only one or two people, the big screen makes an ordinary room look like an amphitheatre. Size is the only new thing about...
...sent talking picture equipment. The machines reproduced the gestures and words of Dr. William Chalmers Covert, general secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, and of Dr. William Ralph Hall, director of the Department of Home & Church. When hymn-time came the machine projected the words on the screen, played the music...
Little Caesar (First National). Undoubtedly the most familiar of current screen figures is the fearless, ambitious gangster who becomes rich on the fruits of evil and dies in the last reel in a heroic manner. With less adroit handling Little Caesar might easily have been no more than a fair program picture and its central character merely a reflection of his many forerunners. Instead, Actor Edward G. Robinson has made his role the supreme embodiment of a type. He is helped by Mervyn Leroy's fine directing and by the fact that W. R. Burnett's story was comprehensive, telling...
...addition to other faults there is far too much talk in the picture and both principals are ludicrously miscast. These are the most serious roles Farrell & Gaynor have ever tried. The results should prove to anyone's satisfaction that the only thing they can do on the screen is what they made their reputation for-poetic comedy-dramas of young love. Most gratifying shot: exposure of the villain as a detective in the service of Farrell's rich father...