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Word: cinemaland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biography"--Avon, 45th Street W.--Ina Claire back from cinemaland cast as the mistress of great men. Thoroughly entertaining and witty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 3/30/1933 | See Source »

...news-article entitled: The Coming Out Party, dealing with the life and works of Al Capone, omits one news-note. Among the people who saw him before he left the "pen" was his lawyer: U. S. Congressman Benjamin M. Colder, a son-in-law of Mastbaum, late satrap of cinemaland in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 7, 1930 | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

Damn Your Honor was conceived by Bayard Veiller, a tireless practitioner of the grapeshot-&-canister style of playwriting, and Becky Gardiner, recruited from the heroic reaches of cinemaland. It has a piratical hero named La Tour (John Halliday), a high-born heroine named Cydalyse (Jessie Royce Landis), five settings by Lee Simonson depicting various splendid aspects of Colonial New Orleans. When the buccaneer has gained the heart and boudoir of the Governor's wife and that overbearing villain has been duly cuckolded, there occurs what bids fair to be recalled as a line-of-the-season. La Tour discovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 13, 1930 | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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