Word: showings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...price which they could but ill afford. To avert such a disaster is for the interest of a very large number of students and if they desire to protect themselves their proper course is to join the Association at once. Investigations which are being made seem to show that the affairs of the Association have been very poorly managed and it is certain that a new steward will be selected who will avoid the blunders of his predecessor. If a sufficient numbers of those who have been driven from the Hall by the mistakes of the past will give...
Conductor Walter Damrosch reported returns last week from his radio concerts for school children. Fully 1,000 letters a day have come in, "show that this country is really hungry for fine music. And not only the children, but the grown people. The older people who are listening in to my programs are a charming and delightful offshoot which I did not contemplate. Their letters show that the mothers and grandmothers, and in some cases the fathers and grandfathers listened in at home while their children heard the concert at school. Altogether it looks as though this might grow into...
Noah's Ark. Many and many a thousand that the Warners have amassed by beating their rivals to the screen with talking pictures (Vitaphone) they poured into this elephantine show. Perhaps they felt its worthlessness of story interest and sought to stun the public with its size...
...Trial. The Warner Brothers' Vitaphone gets a thorough trial in this oldtime courtroom melodrama by Elmer Rice. The verdict: well cast, well talked, well acted, but with a few awkward pauses. The action consists entirely of courtroom testimony with flashbacks to show the events leading up to the murder. It is gradually revealed that Husband No. 1 was justified in killing Husband No. 2, because Husband No. 2 had treated the wife of Husband No. 1 in a dastardly manner. Best shot: a sleepy judge. Best acting: 44-year-old Pauline Frederick and 8-year-old Vondell Darr...
...Wind: Lillian Gish's best picture in eight years. Shadows of Fear: French adaptation of a Zola murder story. Show People: Marion Davies turns the camera on itself, herself, her Hollywood friends. While the City Sleeps: Lon Chaney as a bloodhound with bunions. White Shadows in the South Seas: Fun among the sharks. The Singing Fool: Al Jolson's larynx. Dry Martini: Ritz bar (Paris) barians...