Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AFTER reading his latest book one is led to think that Professor Nicoll, head of the School of Drama at Yale, has transferred his first love from the stage to the screen. As a time when many feel that the movies have not merely damaged the stage but will in the end absorb it, it is encouraging to find a well-known authority on the history of the drama presenting the public with a hopeful analysis of the possibilities of cinema...
Stage and Screen Different
...desire frenziedly to copy the novel devices of the cinema," says Mr. Nicoll. The great mistake has been that Broadway and Hollywood have tried to be like each other. The cinema should not try to reproduce closely stage plays. In the development of his conviction that the stage and screen are fundamentally different in their possibilities, lies the real value of the book...
...long run benefit to the national welfare, a Democratic victory holds a far brighter future for governmental service. President Rosevelt has repeatedly come out in favor of extending the civil service requirements, even to highly paid positions. To lay down a smoke screen of cloudy accusations about Mr. Farley does not obscure the President's good faith. The rapid expansion of government functions, which took place when the recovery agencies were formed, made it impossible to bring the new positions under the examination and merit system. But the less spectacular branches, forestry bureau, consular and diplomatic corps, and the like...
...trained eye detects physiognomies in all stages of the anxiety neurosis, which unloads itself on the digestion, circulation and other bodily functions. The functional diseases of the heart, blood vessels or glands have increased more rapidly than the organic. A tactfully conducted pursuit of the causes removes the screen of headache, insomnia, indigestion and fatigue and the anxiety factor stands revealed. Life has always had a certain amount of strain connected with it," continued the noble doctor. "That is the penalty we pay for living. But the stress of modern life is excessive. We seem these days to live...