Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood Producer Walt Disney announced that he had bought the screen rights to Peter Pan; learned that Singers Adriana Caselotti and Harry Stockwell, who sang the roles respectively of Snow White and Prince Charming, in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, were suing him for $300,000, as their share of the profits from the sale of phonograph records...
Five of a Kind (Twentieth Century-Fox) indicates that something drastic will have to be done about the Dionne Quintuplets. In this, their third full-length screen appearance, they give no impression of taking their profession seriously. In the first place, none of the quintuplets has bothered to learn English. In the second place, what they speak, although it sounds vaguely like French, is really some sort of squirrel talk, whose complete unintelligibility to outsiders appears to delight rather than distress the Dionnes...
...itself sufficient to make Suez rank as one of the major spectacles of the year, the zobah-hah is only an incident in the latest addition to the series of heroic-sized historical plays to which Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck, once a specialist in turning mere newspaper headlines into screen plays, has recently made his forte. Highly romanticized, handsomely decorated and reasonably entertaining, Suez shows Tyrone Power as Ferdinand de Lesseps, successively overcoming the obstacles provided by the climate, Napoleon III, his love for the Empress Eugénie (Loretta Young), his sense of responsibility toward a towheaded waif (Annabella...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21--Dean James M. Landis of the Law School, charged tonight that opponents of the city manager plan for Cambridge, Mass., have launched a "smoke-screen of prejudice, of cheap politics, of falsehoods" to divert attention from the issue when it comes up for a vote on November...
...corporate municipality wrenched out of the heart of its parent city contains some intriguing possibilities for both parties. Frankly, this editorial would be devoted to a discussion of such possibilities were it not for one all-important fact--namely, that the whole affairs is so obviously a smoke-screen conjured up to obliterate the growing sentiment for Plan E government in Cambridge. With this desperate red herring, the Council seeks to delude voters into believing that Harvard is using its vast scholastic tools only as instruments to shield a predatory political influence whose present objective is the domination of Cambridge...