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...profit for 1934 was $1,273,000. Twentieth Century owns no theatres at all, exists solely as a medium for the producing genius of excitable little Darryl Zanuck. The company was organized two years ago when Zanuck squabbled with Warner Brothers, where he had worked up from comedy script writer to production chief. He persuaded United Artists' President Schenck to back his new company, release its productions. The split between Twentieth Century and United Artists started when Sam Goldwyn, who had been United Artists' No. 1 producer, decided that the new company was getting more than its share...
...Flinders Petric, British archacologist, visited the temple and the mines and found proto-Sinattic inscriptions in an unknown script, apparently a Semitic alphabet derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, of great interest to philologists. Harvard expeditions in 1927 and 1930 visited Serabit and carried forward Petrie's investigations of the temple and mines, but no excavation of the temple was attempted...
Heading the bill at the University for today's revival show, is the screen version of Alexandre Dumas' adventurous novel, "The Count of Monte Cristo." For the most part adhering very closely to the Dumas script, the screen adaptation brings to the moviegoer who likes swashbuckling adventure and romance an hour's enjoyable entertainment...
...voice-from-beyond scene, a difficult illusion which failed to get across the footlights, through no fault of Miss Cornell and her excellent supporting cast. Though he played his part as the stricken oracle with ingratiating charm, Burgess Meredith could not help tripping over Mr. van Druten's script...
...years teachers and pupils fussed over the. Germanic script. While Miss Connor was in school, a devastating reaction set in. Standards collapsed right & left. Youngsters were allowed to run riot with pen and paper, express their personalities in rough squiggles, gross curlicues, boorish scrawls. "Horace Greeley's writing was responsible for this horrid idea," explained Miss Connor. "Just because he was a great man with a dreadful handwriting, it followed that all great men must have dreadful hands...