Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barred out by a canvas screen were some 100 correspondents and photographers as the President and some 60 Governors, Senators and drought experts sat down to a fried-chicken lunch at seven round tables in Governor Herring's big reception room. But bursts of loud laughter and Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, popping out with a round-by-round account, kept the newshawks informed. Afterwards various official onlookers were glad to furnish details of the momentous meeting. At the President's table sat Federal District Judge Charles A. Dewey, four Democratic Governors and one Farmer-Laborite Governor (Iowa, Nebraska...
...renewed contact with a world in which his previous life came to disaster, wants to see if destitution has disciplined him for soft high life. Morrie Ryskind and Eric Hatch have peopled Irene's world with the most completely realistic set of rich crazy people seen on the screen for some time. Butler Godfrey shows the babbling Mrs. Bullock how to get rid of the "little men" that haunt her after parties. He disciplines her musician sweetheart (Mischa Auer), whose single ability is that he can imitate a gorilla. He solves the financial woes of Mr. Bullock...
...constitute the major news of the week, this one may do so on the ground that in it Comedian Victor Moore, whose impersonation of Vice President Throttlebottom in Of Thee I Sing gained him more fame than has ever fallen to any actual, holder of that office, makes his screen debut...
...First, the skeleton of a young Dresden woman, killed in an accident, was treated with preservative, covered with paraffin. Brain, heart, stomach, lungs, thyroid, liver, spleen, pancreas, bladder and other organs were taken from corpses, made transparent by a secret process, dyed, photographed in color, enlarged, projected on a screen in three dimensions. From these projections artists made tracings which were used by sculptors to model the organs which actually went into the figure. The viscera as well as the glassy frame of the transparent woman are made of a material called cellhorn, which is tough, resilient, impervious to temperature...
...stars were broadcasting, their theatres were sparsely attended. In the Midwest, in Southern California, in Arizona, Colorado, New York and New England, the embattled members of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America protested bitterly to studios for permitting stars to go on the air as well as the screen. Admen's attitude on the exhibitors' yowl to the studios was summed up last week in a four-word Variety headline: RADIO JUST DOESN'T CARE. Some of the programs which produce strife in the cinema industry...