Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canoe over six hundred miles of open ocean to Manukura. Strange as it may seem, the incidents in his journey are so well chosen that the laments of good luck or coincidence never destroy the suspense. Then comes, perhaps, the greatest climax that has yet been seen on any screen to date--the hurricane. Those shots of stupendous seas and wind and the devastation which they cause to the island and its inhabitants cannot adequately be described. After seeing "Hurricane" one feels that one has been through a harrowing experience oneself--a feeling that the screen only conveys once...
Based on political satire that is amusing if not very biting, "All Baba" is worth seeing though to some it may seem to suffer from the plethora of stage and screen production of the same nature currently before the public...
...relate this last-named fact to the cinema involved a statistical triumph of sorts, but the researchers of the Distilled Spirits Institute (formed after Repeal and headed by erstwhile Prohibition officer Dr. James M. Doran) collated the findings of its sober field workers, arrived at the conclusion that screen bibbers were shown drinking Scotch almost exclusively, to the detriment of an impressionable public...
Precise, neat Actor Arliss was Mrs. Patrick Campbell's leading man in 1901, has since assumed well-bred heroic proportions in the cinema. His next role may be a screen portrait of the late John D. Rockefeller. His well-wishers, meanwhile, are urging a fitting cinememorial, The Life of George Arliss, with Mr. Paul Muni...
...from red-haired 29-year-old cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl (who in three years as his favorite had risen to ranking Nazi film authority) to 38-year-old Pola Negri (born Appollonia Chalupec), whose round poll and lank black hair once marked her as the No. 1 vamp of the screen. Bogeyman Paul Joseph Goebbels was reported frightening Fraulein Riefenstahl by denouncing her for non-Aryan ancestry (TIME, June 21). The Fuhrer, having searched Pola's title to Aryanism, took special pains to affirm it. He had already pronounced: "It is I who decide...