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...Parade, a cinema play of the War written by Laurence Stallings, co-author of What Price Glory, was taken from a four weeks' run on Broadway for a special one-night stand in the East Room of the White House. A 23-piece orchestra accompanied the film to Washington. Secretaries and Congressmen looked on as presidential guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Jan. 4, 1926 | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

Steel Preferred. The presence of Ben Turpin as a bartender would make this film for some people. But Mr. Turpin is one of the few actors who are incomprehensibly absent from the screen much of the time. The play is not, however, a cross-eyed comedy. It is a love story with a steel-mill background and fair enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jan. 4, 1926 | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

Indignation was expressed in the House of Commons when it was learned that Mr. McNeill, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, had leased the right to film the signing of the Locarno Treaties (TIME, Nov. 2) to a single cinema firm for only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Movie Rights | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...Richard Norton, prominent member of the Prince of Wales' party during his visit to the U. S. in 1924, announced that she will undertake the management of a London cinema theatre. To reporters she said, "I have had no experience in the film business, but I hope I have some good ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes, Dec. 14, 1925 | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...Ruggles of Red Gap," an eight reel moving picture and two, one reel cartoons have been obtained by the Union officials to show at the dinner. An attempt to get the film of Charlie Chaplin in "The Gold Rush," was unsuccessful, due to the fact that it had not been displayed at a certain Cambridge theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHRISTMAS DINNER PLANS COMPLETED AT THE UNION | 12/10/1925 | See Source »