Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four Marx Brothers, Chico, Harpo, Groucho, and Zeppo, in a frolicking mood, even as they are on the stage and screen, were "at home" in the sanctity of their dressing rooms at the Metropolitan last night, where they are now playing a short engagement...
...does the press of the world countenance so many lies?" asked Voroshilov, and Stalin said, "They want to make the world think the Soviets started this counter-revolutionary trial [TIME, Nov. 24] as a smoke-screen to hide our supposed starvation, unrest and what...
Asked about the purdali (screen or curtain) concealing his women, a Maharaja who forbade mention of his name said: "The purdah is a mark of gentility. A purdah woman would be discarded at once by her husband if he discovered she had shown her face to a stranger. However there are exceptions. The custom has been broken by the reigning family of Gondal...
...picture she lives up to the elaborate publicity issued for her. Her curiously combined resemblances to Greta Garbo and the late Jeanne Eagels do not lessen the impact of her own personality. Gary Cooper's expert underacting as the hero and Adolphe Menjou's return to the U. S. screen are other reasons for Morocco being a good picture. Menjou has a comparatively unimportant role as a disappointed and aging hedonist, a role he has taken before in slightly different forms, but which he has never done better. Best shot: Marlene Dietrich playing to a hostile crowd in a Moroccan...
...violinist, given it up, studied drama at Max Reinhardt's school and played in the German version of Broadway when von Sternberg put her on contract. He said: "Thank God you are not like the American actresses. You can make more than three faces." Mysterious on the screen, she is plump and girlish in private life; she dislikes Hollywood women because "they talk about their bracelets." She knows little English but her accent has been eliminated before the microphone because von Sternberg did not allow her to memorize her lines until she came on the set, then made her repeat...