Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the State of Utah paid five gunmen $25 each to hide behind a screen, shoot a man dead. In a fit of jealousy, dim-witted young Delbert Green had killed his wife, his mother-in-law and her husband, delayed his execution for six years by fruitless appeals. Finally given a choice between rope and firing squad, he shrugged, got shooting because it was cheaper...
...chair against a wall. A physician pressed a stethoscope to his heart, then pinned a red target with a yellow bulls-eye over it. Green's executioners stood 26 ft. away across the court, their guns, of which one contained a blank cartridge, poked through slits in the screen that hid their identity. At the Sheriff's signal, they fired, and Delbert Green's head jerked skyward, the crucifix dropped in the dirt. Physicians said that he died instantly...
...ones, I Stand Condemned is principally notable for its personnel. Its director was Anthony Asquith, bright young offspring of onetime Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith. Its heroine is Socialite Penelope Dudley-Ward. Its hero, the profiteer Brioukov, is Harry Baur, most famed cinemactor in France, making his English-speaking screen debut...
...glimpses of tables falling, walls caving, bricks pouring, houses toppling, streets gaping and a city burning, it includes enough squeaking, howling, booming and crashing to shake the rafters of the sturdiest cinemansion. An earthquake in the real Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer manner, it lasts for 20 minutes on the screen and in all respects except casualties no doubt betters its original of 30 years...
...from the same branch, is not only a worthy but often a fascinating study of the past, reviving handsomely the glory of bygone days and deeds. A similar entertainment presented on the stage would attract encomiums not only from critics but also from teachers, doctors and philanthropists. On the screen it will fail to do so only be cause fashion deems it unsophisticated to credit Hollywood with sincerity...