Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called "Kresge Books"-Modern Screen Magazine, Modern Love Magazine-are published by a subsidiary of Dell Publishing Co. The first issues, totaling 525,000 copies, were sold out within five days. Next issues, totaling 675,000, will go on sale Dec. 15; thereafter, monthly...
Libby Holman, backed up against a black velvet drop, performing economical, graceful gestures with her fingers, ably ululating an English importation called "Body & Soul." Rear-Admiral Fred Allen, attired in Antarctic haberdashery, lecturing before an incomprehensible hodgepodge projected on the screen ("the base camp"), explaining that his expedition has discovered and claimed "not ten, not 20, but 100,000 sq. mi. of brand new snow for the U. S." Also Fred Allen wondering if he whistled in his sleep: "When I woke up this morning there were four dogs in bed with me." Twelfth Night. Perhaps because the works...
...development of the motion picture has, curiously enough, been tied up with the evolution of its etymology. In the realm of entertainment, its first love, it has commonly been designated as "movie", "the silent screen" and finally as "talkie." As a dubious participator on the outer fringe of Art it bore somewhat proudly the name "cinema", with French embellishments. Happily harmonious in its simplicity, the word "film" has always distinguished the offspring of Edison in its cursory invasion of the laboratory...
High power romance with oriental trappings forms the piece de resistance this week at R. K. O. Keiths. "East is West" starring Lupe Velez is a screen version of the play of the same name, which enjoyed a long and successful run. In spite of this the improbability of the plot is nearly too much of a handicap for the cast, who rescue the play from the depths of ham melodrama by skillful and intelligent acting. White slavery on the Chinese and San Francisco water fronts with the usual handsome young hero to rescue his fair maiden from the clutches...
...room containing numbers one and two of the fifty six with no further warning than "Get Decent" on the part of the Stage Manager. "Ooooo," sagaciously remarked the fair Miss Nelda, and this interviewer retreated hastily, having been warned by that expressive exclamation that the young lady behind the screen (Miss Violet) was not to be seen. A few seconds later another entree was attempted and successfully attained. It seemed that Miss Violet had been doing a bit of reading and had not yet had the time to "change". The book was Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil...