Word: screens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thin and superficial continuity, to be sure, is often attempted in what are known as "rapid survey" courses, where innumerable slides appear in swift succession upon the screen, with equally swift comments by the instructor. At the end of such a course, the victim of this "speed-up" system is expected to "identify" a goodly number of slides, and will doubtless pass the rest of his life comfortably unaware of the distinction between recognition and understanding. In such fashion, as one college catalogue once stated, "the student learns to recognize the old masters upon sight." To be on speaking terms...
From cabbages to kings is the theme of "Idiot's Delight" now competing for first place on the U. T.'s screen with "Topper Takes a Trip." A peculiar emotional attitude toward war is expressed in this drama of worldly types caught on a remote mountain in Europe as war breaks out all around them. There is the villainous munitions manufacturer and his actress mistress, formerly a vaudeville performer in America and now posing as a Russian Countess. Clark Gable represents the cabbages as Harry Van, hoofer and friend of the Countess. The tone of Sherwood's play has been...
...Myrna Loy, less impudent than Joan Blondell, she has a careless self-sufficiency which they lack. As a dancer, Ginger Rogers has been immensely improved by her association with Astaire, who works out the routines for most of their numbers, then teaches them to her. She now has no screen rivals...
...thousand people saw Irene Castle dance. The Wartime movies which The Castles shows her making were not a tremendous success. When Rogers and Astaire first danced together in Flying Down to Rio, movie producers were still apprehensive that audiences would not be enthusiastic about full-length dances on the screen. Rogers and Astaire light-footedly kicked that apprehension into a cocked hat, and in the process (eight pictures) have grossed a total of $18,000.000 for RKO. Irene Castle had her thousands of admirers, Ginger Rogers has her millions...
Marriage Revealed. Risë (rhymes with Mona Lisa) Stevens, 25, pretty new Metropolitan Opera contralto; and Walter Szurowy, 28, Hungarian stage & screen actor; three months ago; in Manhattan...