Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany today, movie productions like The Autocrat are as much the work of the State as the law itself, and last week Nazis saw nothing incongruous in this method of introducing to Germans via the screen what is soon to be a basic change in German rights of property and inheritance...
...Stock Company whose leading man a week later conveniently broke his leg. Substituting for him, Ameche played a year in stock, took a vaudeville tour with the late Texas Guinan, made good on a Chicago radio hour. He did so well as a radio actor that he got a screen test from Producer Darryl Zanuck who, the day Ameche got to Hollywood, cast him in a tedious epic called Sins...
Pierre J. Martin, a little French painter of 62 who invented an unsuccessful sort of motion picture screen, dreamed not long ago that he flew to Mars and found there a race of little people with long hair, pointed ears and chickens' feet. They were eating cherries. He painted a picture of this and last week it was on the walls of the same exhibition...
...fact that Groucho Marx receives screen credit as co-author with Norman Krasna of The King and the Chorus Girl, may to some extent account for the picture's utterly amoral and pleasantly lucid lunacy. So may the fine comedy sense of Director Mervyn Le Roy, making his debut as a producer. Any added fillip given the story by plot resemblances to recent developments in European affairs can, since it went into production last October, be considered a happy accident, as can the facial resemblance of Actor Fernand Gravet to the Duke of Windsor when the Duke...
...seafaring technique by Sea Captain Frederick Fleugal and for special effects by James Basevi (San Francisco), is a reproduction of the sinking of the Titanic. The best shot in the picture-the horrible apparition of the fatal berg through the fog-is done with glass on a split screen. The collision itself is a miniature. The hysteria at the lifeboats, the singing of Nearer, My God, To Thee were made on a life-scale ship...