Word: cineman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Midsummer Night's Dream (Warner). A year ago Director Max Reinhardt took his famed stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream to the Hollywood Bowl. Its reception there impressed upon Cineman Jack Warner a fact long familiar to stage impresarios: although most people may doze through his plays, they will pay well to see William Shakespeare performed. With what the cinema industry immediately hailed as an unparalleled display of courage, optimism, and esthetic vision, Producer Warner thereupon started work...
...strung, sagacious Karl von Wiegand of Universal Service, who postponed writing his memoirs to go to Ethiopia. Assisting him is Wynant Davis Hubbard, onetime (1919-20) Harvard tackle, who in 35 years has been a miner, missionary, cartographer, plumber, dentist, undertaker, explorer, geologist, big-game hunter, animal psychologist, author, cineman, scientist...
Notable for being the first play to take advantage of New York State's new law permitting legitimate performances on Sunday, A Touch of Brimstone seems somehow irrelevant and dated, a clever theatrical pastiche which may very well be transformed into an acceptable cineman...
...land agent on the estate of a Hungarian bishop, he became a schoolteacher at 14, a reporter at 18, got into cinema by translating subtitles. Starting with an inferior epic based on the Freudian theory of dreams, he began to produce pictures of his own, became the No. 1 cineman of Hungary after the War. This trifling distinction served as a mild irritant. He went to Vienna, made a hit called The Prince and the Pauper, married an actress named Maria Farkas, moved on to Berlin to work for UFA, arrived in Hollywood as a director for First National...
...listed the Tijuana riffraff and called their settlement Agua Caliente ("Hot Water"). Repeal killed drab Tijuana, merely boomed the horse & dog racing, the Casino gambling, swimming, drinking at Hot Water. Natives of Hollywood, only an hour and a half away by plane, got in the habit of weekending there. Cineman Joseph Schenck bought into the Hotel, was delighted this year when Warners used his place for exterior shots in In Caliente (TIME, June 3). Into this playtime idyl last week crashed Mexico's ascetic President Lázaro Cárdenas...