Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coached by W. B. Cowen Jr '29, who directed the Cercle Francais play last year, "la Grande Duchesse et le Garcon" is the same play that was adapted for the screen for Adolphe Menjou and know simply as "The Grand Duchess and the Waiter." The first tryouts will be held tomorrow in Randolph 9. The club gives one play in the Pall and one in the Spring...
...seals on Guadalupe Island, off the coast of Mexico. They had not been able to get a specimen since the animals were lying on inaccessible rocks. When he read press accounts of the white seals, John Barrymore, cinemactor who has twice chased the white whale, Moby Dick, on the screen, set off at once for the island in his yacht, Infante, accompanied by his wife, baby and scientists...
...Fosdick's party paused to study the great, stone chancel screen curving from reading desk to pulpit. Carved large on each of its seven separate sections is an aspect of the Christ...
...emphatically denied but criticism stayed bitter, and cinemactors were not surprised for Hope Hampton, not long ago, was just one of them. On the strength of a Texas beauty-contest prize she got her first job in Hollywood as an extra. She soon rose to stardom but the screen could not reveal her flaming orange hair (her one unique characteristic) and she had small success. Wiseacres fell into the way of calling her Hopeless Hampton but that was before she married Jules E. Brulatour, pince-nezed grey-haired film tycoon (Paramount Famous Lasky Corp.), before she had operatic ambitions...
...followers pointed out the details of the interior: ten enormous stained glass aisle windows softening the sight of his stone pulpit, reading stand and chancel screen; the 1,408 seats in the nave, some equipped with electrical earphone connections, and only 100 blocked by pillars from view of the pulpit; 'the two galleries at one end of the nave and the triforium galleries (seating 1,000) between the pillars and the clerestory windows, reached by four quiet elevators...