Word: timing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shows a Salvation Army "citadel" with doors marked MEN and WOMEN. Every time an actor starts for one, the crowd shouts: "Wrong door, wrong door...
...Finnish Relief Fund nearly missed. Near week's end it was reminded (by TIME'S Religion editor) that in the newest (1935) Methodist Hymnal, Hymn No. 73 is sung to the tune of Jean Sibelius' Finlandia. It begins...
Radio Comic Fred Allen, having hugely annoyed Philadelphia's Chamber of Commerce by wisecracking about the smallness of a Philadelphia hotel room he once put up in (TIME, Dec. 18), tried to make amends by explaining that times had changed; but that old room, said he, "was so small it had a digest phone book, the calendar on the wall showed only half a day, the ceiling was so low that if you ordered a three-decker sandwich, the waiter brought one deck at a time...
Cinema's peculiar virtue as an art is that it conquers the limitations of stage and life, ranges wherever man's imagination takes him, unrestrained by time or space or experience. Nobody in the movie business ever realized cinema's possibilities more completely than elusive, gay, acrobatic Douglas Fairbanks, son of a Denver lawyer and Shakespearean expert...
...Justus Mayer all had at least a little finger in the scenario. But next to Sidney Howard's work, the bulk of the scripting, as David Selznick admits, was done by David Selznick. He is still very touchy because a shooting script was not ready even by the time that the final scenes were filmed. When the filming was practically complete the last day's call sheet read: Script to come...