Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1921 Marquand has devoted himself to the writing of fiction. Besides his short stories in the Saturday Evening Post, he has won many friends through his Mr. Moto stories. His latest, "Thank You, Mr. Moto," was also seen on the screen...
...perhaps the maddest, most riotous comedy of the last generation which is currently rollicking across the screen of the University Theatre under the title "Bringing Up Baby." It concerns leopards, prehistoric bones, big game hunters, a cartload of hens and ducks, and a singularly unaccomodating little wire-haired terrier called "George." It shows Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant wandering in and about golf courses, forests, and a Connecticut jail in search of "Baby"--the young leopard, and vaguely hoping to recover Mr. Grant's most precious possession: the intercostal clavicle of a prehistoric brontosaurus. It enlists the services of such...
Marie Bell, Raimu, Fernandel, Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur, the greatest cinema actors in France, names that will pack any theatre in Paris, all came to the Fine Arts yesterday in "Un Carnet de Bal," a picture worth seeing if only as an anthology of all that the French screen has to offer. Episodic, rather in the manner of "If I Had A Million," the picture takes a world-weary blonde (Mlle. Bell) in search of ten boys she had known in her youth. She had gone to her first ball, a card dance, when she was sixteen, and each...
...doubtful if "Un Carnet de Bal" deserved the Venice award as the greatest picture of 1937. It is far from great; although they may strike American audiences as novel, the trick plot and twisted cynicism are old stuff on the European screen. But Julien Duvivier, master of French directors--he has made better films than this--has given "Un Carnet" the touch of the artist, which combines with competent acting and force photography to make the picture thoroughly worthwhile...
Married. Samuel Joachim, 32, Jimmy of the three lunatic Ritz Brothers (One in a Million, Life Begins in College); to Ruth Hilliard, 21, radio and night club singer, screen actress; in Manhattan...