Word: celluloids
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...world problem the present Japanese trade menace is largely a matter of textile goods. Only in the U. S. where Japanese dumping has been receiving more and more attention since the last days of the Hoover Administration is the accent shifted to small manufactured goods-celluloid toys, rubber soled shoes crockery electric light bulbs. The U. S. is by far Japan's greatest market, but from the U. S. Japan imports one-fourth again as much as she sends...
...just staging a last comeback. Her beauty was at its fullest bloom, her ambition straining at the traces. Donka was happy. Her lover was Oliver Dent, Hollywood's greatest star, at the peak of his career. Until their work separated them their affair was as smooth as celluloid. While Oliver tried to rest before his next picture, Donka slaved, had little time or inclination for him at the end of her crowded day. But she found time to save an old pal from committing suicide by taking him into her bed. Oliver found them together. Donka tried to patch...
...this school, to have been Katharine Hepburn's true reason for entering the movies, and now that "Jezebel" appears, Miriam Hopkins' also. For, although most who know her name would not recall it, Miss Hopkins has been in nine or ten New York hits before her career in celluloid started. Among these were "Lysistrata," "The Affairs of Anatol," "The Camel Through The Needle's Eye," and "John Ferguson." Unfortunately it cannot be said that either the Hopkins or the Hepburn reputation will be greatly increased by their present reappearances on the stage. In the first case, the fault lies mainly...
...Lowell House spy tells us that when Professor Julian Lowell Coolidge takes his Saturday night bath, he is entertained in the tub by a fleet of celluloid ducks. This sounds two good two be twue...
Double Door (by Elizabeth McFadden; Potter & Haight, producers). Victoria Van Bret (Mary Morris, malevolent Abbie in Desire Under the Elms}, a tyrannous New York aristocrat of the celluloid collar era, dominates her half-brother Rip and her younger sister Caroline with an insane despotism. When Anne Darrow (Aleta Freel of Both Your Houses}, Rip's nurse during an attack of pneumonia, is about to marry the Van Bret scion, Victoria forbids organ music, refuses to attend ' the ceremony, locks up the wedding presents and denies the bride the Van Bret pearls which are by will...