Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rice, Dr. Parran and every other responsible social hygienist in the country admit that they cannot strike their enemy dead unless they first demolish the social custom which forbids public discussion of venereal diseases. Nowhere is this taboo more rigidly enforced than on the screen or in radio. Cinema producers are well aware that any reference to the subject, regardless of good motives or public purpose, will only make trouble for themselves. Columbia Broadcasting will not permit the word "syphilis" to go out over the air from its stations. National Broad casting this year gingerly permitted Dr. Parran...
Cain and Mabel (Warner Bros.). "Her face is new," comments a character early in this picture in reference to Marion Davies. Actually, Cinemactress Davies' face, first seen on the screen in 1918, is getting quite old. It will never be as old, however, as Cain and Mabel's plot, which combines two of the cinema's most familiar story formulas: 1) Hate Can Turn to Love; 2) The Way to a Man's Heart Is Through His Stomach...
Wedding Present (Paramount). Cinema newspaper people, merely drunken sots a few years ago, have kept on topping each other's efforts in irresponsibility. Currently newshawks on the screen are, with few exceptions (see below), practically indistinguishable from run-of-the-mill lunatics. Wedding Present turns a couple of these creatures loose to follow the bidding of their erratic temperaments. The result, however insulting to the dignity of the trade, is efficacious and at times uproarious comedy...
...like to see headlines from Hearst papers flashed on the screen every few minutes, and if you like to see Mr. Hearst's Miss Marion Davis try to act twenty years younger than she is, then there's nothing else for you to do but go see "Cain and Mabel...
...this delightful piece of furniture in the bathroom scenery of "Swing Time." With some pleasure and no fear this department takes pleasure in offering a copy of its composite picture of allRepublicannomineesforpublicofficeattheNovemberelections to anyone who reports a bona fide instance of this item having appeared on the silver screen. NARCISSUS...