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...film puppet-show is even more complicated than making an animated cartoon. This one, though lighted so as to give the effect of a silhouet, is three dimensional. The figures had to be drawn, then cut out of cardboard and sheet-lead, then articulated so that they could move. A German designer, Mrs. Lotte Reiniger, working with Walter Ruttmann (who made for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari expressionistic sets never surpassed in the cinema) spent three years on The Adventures of Prince Achmed. The story is tenuous. Achmed makes love, goes to war, combats a sorcerer in settings and among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...Whalen, New York City's official greeter and onetime police commissioner, stepped out on a cinema set in Los Angeles. .So much did he resemble an extra actor made up for the play in progress that an assistant director gave him a push, bellowing: "Come on, get a move on!" When Mr. Whalen protested politely, the assistant director roared: "Don't gee fresh with me!" Grover Aloysius Whalen extricated himself from this embarrassing situation by producing his calling card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

Tosca by Italian artists, the chorus of La Scala and the Milan Symphony, under Lorenzo Molajoli (Columbia, $21)-In-terruptions by an excited Italian claque are the only additions needed to make this Tosca sound completely realistic. All Conductor Molajoli's performances move at a swift, theatric pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: March Records | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

Definite decision regarding the holding of the 1932 I. C. 4A. outdoor championships in California has been reserved as the Princeton athletic authorities still remain opposed to the move, although it has received almost unanimous support from the other competing colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SECOND IN I.C.A.A.A.A. MEET | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...present move of the Harvard Club is motivated by a belief that trained crews of older men, somewhat neglected of late years, are nevertheless more than able to hold their own against college eights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON HARVARD CLUB PLANS CREW PRACTICE | 3/7/1931 | See Source »