Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scenario writers whose task is to portray the activities of the various gangs of racketeers, who shoot up the screen in many motion picture houses now must have exhausted their imaginations before the plot for "The Squealer" now current at the Keith Albee theatre, was concoted...
...medical men. Twenty-thousand letters had been sent inviting doctors to instruction in reading X-ray pictures of cancerous bones. Only 300 appeared at Baltimore, but events proved that the 300 needed Dr. Bloodgood's instruction. He had photograph after photograph of cancerous bones and joints thrown on a screen. The 300 were asked to write down their diagnoses. At first very few were correct. But as projections continued scores mounted until at the end most of the doctors agreed in their picture readings, could return home more confident of making proper cancer diagnoses...
...Milliken's well-written advertisement quoted correctly, but wisely abstained from drawing certain distinctions. "Harakiri" is only one form of suicide, at which the Japanese are peculiarly adept. Newsman Russell admits the Western screen is encouraging Japs to restrain from their heroic belly-cutting, BUT (here Mr. Milliken forgot to quote) AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER FORMS OF SUICIDE. "A Japanese authority who has studied suicide in his country." says Mr. Russell . . . "blames the movies for the increase of other forms of self-despatch...
...Television Corp., has been selling sets to Englishmen for four months, has established branches in many foreign countries (France, Germany, U. S.). Because owners have complained of the small size of televized images, Inventor Baird has, like Dr. Alexanderson of General Electric, spent the past year in enlarging his screen. Last fortnight, he gave a demonstration in the London Coliseum of his life-size images. English television programs are broadcast every...
Died. Marcia Millikan, I, daughter of Dr. & Mrs. Clark Millikan, granddaughter of famed Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan; of strangulation when a screen fell on her throat as she lay in her crib at her grandparents' home in San Marino, Calif...