Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of the feature, Kid Galahad, at the early show at Manhattan's little Greenwich Theatre "Where Bohemia Meets the Modern" one evening last week, the lights came on suddenly, the picture faded from the screen and the sound equipment boomed: "Attention, please, ladies & gentlemen. This is the motion picture operator speaking to you from the booth. There is no trouble with the equipment and no cause for alarm. I am using this means to protest to you against the inhuman working conditions in this theatre. I work seven days a week, eleven and one-half hours...
Preparing for a six-day convention of 2,000 delegates, factotums of Chicago's Hotel Sherman last week installed the usual facilities: a microphone and loudspeaker in the convention hall, a glittering screen behind the speakers' platform. All this unfortunately was not evidence of tact and foresight. The delegates were members of the National Association of the Deaf. The microphone was useless and the glittering screen had to be replaced by a black one before the audience could see what the speakers were saying...
...Equity were heard in 1929 when President Gillmore descended upon Hollywood to persuade that still rambunctious community to join up with Equity. He returned to Broadway with no cinema contracts. It was not until in 1933 that Hollywood, by then feeling public stirrings of social-consciousness, formed a haphazard Screen Actors Guild which, like Equity, received its charter from American Federation of Labor through a loose-knitted "International" organization called Associated Actors & Artistes of America (A. A. A. A.) Not even Equity members were sure whether it was victory or a concession when Gillmore thereupon laid down the law that...
...tried & true ingredients for large-scale musical melodrama, High, Wide and Handsome omits none, from folk dancing to the scene in which Sally, temporarily estranged from her husband, sings in a tent show. Produced by Arthur Hornblow in the magniloquent tradition of screen plays like Showboat and San Francisco, directed with broad strokes by Rouben Mamoulian, it is shrewd, symphonic, sentimental mass entertainment, which should satisfy most cinemaddicts, surprise almost none. Good shot: a carnival strong man tossing Red Scanlon into a creek. The Toast of New York (RKO) exhibits Edward Arnold, previously seen as Diamond Jim Brady, General John...
...Joel Sayre, John Twist and Dudley Nichols, The Toast of New York is a lively specimen of prefabricated Americana. It aims to be and is a complete prevarication, impaired only by the fact that Edward Arnold's jowled jollities are indistinguishable from the ones which the U. S. screen's No. 1 specialist in 19th Century captains of finance has used in all his previous portrayals. Good shot: Fisk, Boyd and the Ninth Regiment routing a gang hired by Vanderbilt by turning a hose on them...