Word: film
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Divorce Rumored. Mildred Zukor Loew (now in Reno), daughter of President Adolph Zukor of Paramount-Famous-Lasky; from Arthur M. Loew, vice president of Loew's, Inc., son of the late Film Producer Marcus Loew...
...Enigmatique Monsieur Parkes (Paramount). When Adolphe Menjou left Hollywood for France, his somewhat abrupt disappearance from the top flight of film stars was attributed to his inability to make sound pictures. But others said that he had left because his ideas about his salary, temperamentally expressed, had finally tired the Paramount company. Certainly the first rumor is contradicted by what he does here. It is a dialog picture made completely in French for foreign export-an adaptation of the film released in the U. S. as Slightly Scarlet, with Clive Brook and Evelyn Brent. Menjou's voice...
...From Fox Film Corp. last week resigned Courtland Smith, brother-in-law of Arthur Brisbane, founder and manager of Fox Movietone News, responsible for Manhattan's newsreel theatre, the Embassy. Called by Fox-President Harley L. Clarke "one of the outstanding figures in the motion picture industry" Cineman Smith will become president of Translux Movies Corp., two-weeks old organization...
...surprising at first, until you begin to feel it appropriate to the subject in hand. Often the transition from one crisis in Lincoln's career to another is so abrupt as to seem superficial. In part this is because of the limitations which program-time impose on the film's structure (it lasts only 100 minutes). The dialog by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet is less a factor in the picture's success than the masterly acting of Walter Huston in the title role. Sometimes in appearance he is a double for the familiar pictures of Lincoln?; sometimes, particularly...
...taking pictures through an inverted microscope onto a film coated with the Goldberg emulsion it is claimed that 100 novels could be printed on one postcard and a man could carry his library in his billfold. A spy could carry a photograph of a campaign map on a piece of paper no bigger than a beauty spot...