Word: cinemae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parts of the Paramount studios in Hollywood, often appearing most unexpectedly, examining everything. He had never before been known to be so inquisitive about the making of his own pictures. But the talkie has caused a crisis. First the talkie has greatly increased competition in the cinema business?Fox and the Warner Brothers having taken a talkie lead. Second, if the talkies become dominant, the U. S. may lose its position in foreign markets because U. S. stars can, at best, speak only one language at a time. Therefore, when Mr. Zukor finally pronounced in favor of the talkie...
Dream of Love has what millions of cinema fans want-a beautiful heroine (Joan Crawford) and a handsome hero (Nils Asther) making love in a romantic setting (the mythical Kingdom of Kuremme). The spirit and most of the best lines are inspired by the "legit" play, The Command to Love. A little wittier than most dramas of a prince wavering between a throne and an actress, Dream of Love leans heavily on the sex appeal of Actress Crawford, called "Venus of Hollywood." After each new film Miss Crawford receives ardent letters from thousands of high-school and college boys...
...night of Oct. 22, 1927. No one ever learned what glib compelling secret Anne Nichols had put into her play to make so many people want to see it. She herself has not been able to repeat its success; imitators have been unable, in story, play or cinema to duplicate its homely attractions...
...cinema, The Cohens and Kellys, which dealt with the same situation (Irish-Hebrew romance), achieved some box-office attention. Accordingly, last week, Anne Nichols, asking $3,000,000, was in court to sue Universal Pictures Corp. for plagiarism. The trial proceeded in the higgly-piggly fashion of plagiarism suits, with interminable memorabilia, mentions of long-forgotten vaudeville skits and old plays from which The Cohens and Kellys might possibly have been derived. Some Universal adman had written an advertisement in which The Cohens and Kellys had been called "another Abie's Irish Rose." This was discussed. Universal discredited...
...George Jean Nathan, Aristotle, Gorky, Ibsen, Bernard Shaw and many another were spoken. Author Nichols' "dramaturgical expert," Moses L. Malevinsky of O'Brien, Malevinsky, & Driscoll, proceeded to a comparison of every entrance and exit in Abie's Irish Rose with every entrance and exit in the cinema...