Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--Copyright, 1938, by United Press--The Navy Department has been informed that Japan is constructing a powerful "hit and run" fleet that may revolutionize naval tactics, the United Press learned tonight. Despite a screen of censorship this government has been advised that the island empire is building a type of super-cruiser that has no match from the standpoints of speed, mobility and striking power...
Today's program is nicely balanced, with Paul Muni's admirable interpretation of "The Story of Louis Pastcur" offset by Claudett Colbert and Melvyn Douglas in "She Married Her Boss." Tomorrow, however, they are abandoning the old name of "review day" in favor of "Romance Day," bringing to the screen Stokowski in "100 Men and a Girl" and Garbo in "Anna Karenina." This idylic couple, last heard from on the Isle of Capri, got widely diverging reactions from the local public. The big Swede left Harvard hearts cold, but the stoical Stokowski received such an overwhelming Radcliffe vote that...
Dietrich out of a job, Miranda is in Hollywood at Paramount, preparing to drape both their mantles over her shapely shoulders. To the late Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio (who had never met her), Miranda was "the most glamorous one in the world. She is to the screen what Duse was to the stage...
...woeful wind-up into La Boheme's familiar last act. With vigorous operatic Tenor Jan Kiepura and his cinema-songstress wife, Marta Eggerth, singing the opera's chief arias, the music charms, the film's scheme proves a workable one for bringing grand opera to the screen...
Died. Austin Parker, 46, screen writer (Week End); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Five years ago Cinemauthor Parker wrote Cinemactress Miriam Hopkins, then his wife, asking that there be "no sadness, no mourning and no ceremony" after his death. Now the wife of Director Anatole Litvak, Cinemactress Hopkins last week gathered with other Parker friends in a Hollywood funeral parlor, "just to sit around," she said, "and talk about what a swell...