Universal Weekly (1933-1935)

Record Details:

Title:
Universal Weekly
Date:
1933-1935
Author:
Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co.
Publisher:
New York, Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co.
Volume:
Universal Weekly (1933-1935)
Leaf #:
000468
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
The organ of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Previously titled MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY.
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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4 UNIVERSAL WEEKLY = Nov. 30, 1935 TO EVERY MAN WH No. 840 Straight-from-the-Shoulder Talk by Carl Laemmle, President of the Universal Pictures Corporation If you are over 25 years of age. I've got something that will give you a terrific kick. I've got news which will carry you back to the days when you wore knee pants — to the days when you had a pure heart— to the days when you experienced thrills which you will never get again if you live to be a hundred, I am producing "The Adventures of Frank Merriwell" — and I am producing it much better than your imagination can possibly conceive. I am bringing your idol of your youthful days to the screen — and he will be a living, breathing, human being. I am putting the famous Frank Merriwell of your kid days on the screen in serial form. I am giving you and your sons and even your grandsons the marvelous kick that you got out of Frank Merriwell's adventures. I am even using the sons of famous movie stars in the cast. Just for example: House Peters, JUNIOR.; Wallace Reid, JUNIOR; Edward Arnold, JUNIOFL; Bryant Washburn, JUNIOR; Jean Herscholt, JUNIOR; Herschell Mayail, JUNIOR; Peter Cowland, JUNIOR; — and please notice the JUNIORS. Sons of famous