Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lights in the auditorium were dimmed. The photograph of a very sick man flashed on a screen. Continued Dr. Beck: "This man [on the screen] is a surgeon, a fellow of this College, who came to me because he knew of my work and had confidence in it. He had diabetes and other complications which made him a bad risk. But he said, 'You get me off the table and I'll do the rest...
...shabby Foot-Lights Club, says that she would not go to Hollywood and have her art put up in a can like soup even for an ermine swimming pool, she is not bringing any fresh arguments to bear on the long-mooted question of superiority be tween stage and screen. And when her radical, playwriting friend (Richard Kendrick), having decided after a Broad way success to go West and write for and not about the masses, tells Terry that the theatre is an obsolete art form which is not equipped to keep its devotees' bodies or spirits alive...
...impersonation of a girl who at the last moment replaces a famed screen star, who for publicity purposes has condescended to return to show business for one dramatic appearance, suggests a parallel be tween art and life that is likely to confuse most spectators...
...would be joshed when he went back to steelwork, Haade insisted that there be three other steelworkers in the play with him. They find the stage dull, dislike the night work. Mr. Geddes would like to keep Haade in the theatre and five cinema companies last week offered him screen tests, which he has not accepted. Unwilling, however, to ruin a perfectly good steelworker. Mr. Geddes is letting his protege choose his own course...
...solution of the problem is simpler than the smoke screen of mutual hate and intolerance implies. The companies should allow the unions the control they want in the hiring halls, agreeing to employ union labor without threat of "scabs" and strike breakers. Labor in turn should permit the companies to reject men they consider unfit, maintain the traditional right of the marine owner to employ whomever he chooses. Thus employers could not lock out workers for reasons of prejudice or party, but would still control the calibre of the crews, on which safe conduct at sea so much depends. Agreements...