"Nothing so concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning." So wrote 18th-century wit Samuel Johnson, and his words still ring true.

The Riverdale YM-YWHA, located at 5625 Arlington Ave., will screen My Man Godfrey starring Carole Lombard at 7 p.m., the second film in their Rose Classic Film series.

The Issaquah Arts Commission is hosting its second film series starting this Saturday, January 9th, 7:00 p.m. at the Issaquah Depot.

This film, The Rocker, was not well reviewed, but it has the distinction of being the only one I have heard of that has a Baha'i star, at least not since Carole Lombard, in the 1930's. Coincidentally, she was also a comic actor.

"Twentieth Century," the season opener at the Little Theatre of Virginia Beach, is a joyride back to 1930s "screwball" comedy.

The four major movie palaces in Downtown Brooklyn had much to offer in the way of entertainment according to ads in the Brooklyn Eagle of August 27, 1939.