Word: screening
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...screen, a shadow flickered?a shadow with feet like boxcars and a smile like the last soliloquy of Hamlet. He was a tenderfoot. The date was the year of Our Lord 1896?a period in which gentlemen were proud to spend several thousand dollars of lousy paper money to dig up a couple of ounces of mica "in the Klondike. ... A blizzard. A straggling company of ragged monte-banks passing through a wintry defile; Chilkoot Pass. Chaplin left behind in the dash for gold, blown to the door of a lonely cabin. Does the hearty Westerner within open his door...
...Secret. This is another one you can go by without turning in. It started as a Hungarian play, was known to the local stage as The Moonfiower and comes to the screen crushed and pulpy with too much adapting. The Riviera is the scene; the adventures of a blonde lady among the wicked adventurers with whiskers and dark Italian dispositions are the story...
...from New York to Chicago in seven minutes, in the form of a telephoned photograph, diagnosed: "Systolic murmur." Dr. Lambert, hearing over long-distance telephone, agreed; and the whole conversation was heard by all the physicians, who could check up the diagnosis themselves through the chart flashed on the screen...
...Coolidge feels that he could never make a great motion picture star. Perhaps he is right, but there is always room for an intelligent and hard-working young man in Hollywood. Who knows what a little brown grease painter, a gay turban, and an Arab steed might do. The screen is perpetually looking for a successor to the great Valentino...
...American theatre equal in prestige to the Comedie Francaise is the next step in the development of the stage here." Miss Madge Kennedy, star of the stage and screen, declared in a recent interview...