Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back to Italy a few months ago went Dr. Senise to tackle the then head of Fascist films, Luigi Freddi, in the expensive Cinema City that II Duce has built outside Rome. To Filmtsar Freddi the idea of cinemoperas seemed "too big, too beautiful" for Italy. Piqued Dr. Senise went immediately to Vittorio Mussolini, who carried the plan just as quickly to papa...
...hook, thus becoming the past season's most promising freshman producer. Of the other two productions, one was offered by a very oldtimer, the other by a pair of Johnny-come-latelies. The casts of two shows were livened by the appearance of two big-time cinema performers, only one play was written by a U. S. citizen and none was likely to survive the first snow...
...Wilson show, was written by 27-year-old Gerald Savory while he was unemployed. Many of its lines were inspired, according to him, by retorts he thought of too late to say to bobbies, servants, uppity people. The play's long run in London and the sale of cinema rights are said to have disqualified him for the dole by some...
Blow Ye Winds (by Valentine Davies; Arthur Hopkins, producer) does little for the national honor. Producer Hopkins, who has had scant success for nearly a decade, perennially mourns the death of the theatre, blames the critics and the cinema, but returns to the stage with admirable perseverance. Along with scores of producing colleagues, he has recently seemed to suffer from script-trouble. In the opinion of most observers, Blow Ye Winds is another symptom...
...smart, brisk little practitioner of radio and cinema music is Andre (''Kosty") Kostelanetz, who once was assistant conductor in the Imperial Opera in St. Petersburg, left his native land after the revolution to become U. S. accompanist to a number of second-string opera singers. For seven years, Kostelanetz has been a radio conductor, has had his name linked frequently with that of Soprano Lily Pons since he led the orchestra in her first two pictures (I Dream Too Much, That Girl From Paris). Commuting last year between Hollywood and Manhattan by airplane, "Kosty" flew 126,000 miles...