Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tokyo was treated last week to some-thing as exciting as though Paris had learned during the World War that Sarah Bernhardt, Cecile Sorel or Mistinguett had eloped to Germany with a French admirer of Kaiser Wilhelm. A topflight Japanese stage & screen star is Miss Yoshiki Okada, billed soon to appear in a leading Tokyo theatre. For a time she was the Viscountess Takeuchi, recently was said to have taken as her lover a Japanese Communist writer, Ryokichi Sugimoto. Last week this pair were reported out sleighing on the snow-covered island of Sakhalin, half Japanese, half Soviet. Suddenly...
...whole house down in height to fit a normal one-ergo, 5' 8" tall, say. ... I broadened the mass out all I possibly could, brought it down into spaciousness. ... I was working toward the elimination of the wall as a wall to reach the function of a screen, as a means of opening up space. . . . The planes of the building parallel to the ground were all stressed-to grip the whole to Earth...
Larry Kelley, late star of the Yale bowl, had a screen test taken in Hollywood last summer, and made such a hit that he has been approached by Lou Erwin, motion picture promoter, according to a Norwalk, Connecticut paper...
...either business than Steichen's retirement was to his. During the past 15 years he has devoted a famous talent to the development of photography for the magazine market. His name was about the first to mean anything under a fashion photograph. Since 1923 his portraits of stage, screen, society, sporting people have made the most striking pages in Vogue and Vanity Fair...
...Picture. A ninth, called Click, sidled sleazily into the parade last week with an initial printing of 1,500,000 copies which contain no advertising. Noiselessly back of Click is Moses Louis Annenberg, owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the sporting New York Morning Telegraph, the profitable pulp Radio Guide, Screen Guide and Official Detective Stories. Son Walter Annenberg is Click's director. Best known of its several editors, mostly recruited from other Annenberg publications, are Emile Gauvreau, celebrated as the editor of the notorious but long defunct New York Graphic, and Curtis Mitchell, also editorial director of Screen Guide...