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Married. Miss Alma Rubens, cinema actress (current film: Under the Red Robe), to Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman, author and cinema producer. The marriage, which was celebrated "on or near Labor Day" in a place not designated, was only recently announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 26, 1923 | 11/26/1923 | See Source »

Whenever some public-spirited savant brings forward a method of dealing out information wholesale, by means of "predigested news" or "educational films", or "fifteen minute-a-day" reading courses, there is usually more or less definite disparagement by those who are devoted to the "good old days" and apparently want every man to decipher original Greek manuscripts for himself. A case in point is the making by the Yale Press of a motion picture to cover American history, from its earliest beginnings to the present. This film is labelled with the damning title of "tabloid history"; and the intellectually elite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY PILLS. | 11/24/1923 | See Source »

Moses, whose receipt of the commandments will be immortalized in film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Nov. 19, 1923 | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

...number of months. Their representatives assure the world at-large, however, that they have a vast supply of undisclosed photography in their possession. Heading their list is The Ten Commandments, a $2,000,000 production which, they trust, will follow their The Covered Wagon as the most popular film in the world. The prologue shows the original ten in process of discovery by Moses; later the film discusses their application in modern life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre Notes, Nov. 19, 1923 | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

Lillian Gish is now somewhere in the vicinity of Gibraltar, en route to Italy, where she will do a film version of George Eliot's Romola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre Notes, Nov. 19, 1923 | 11/19/1923 | See Source »