Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With all the stories in the world to choose from, which story would a shrewd cinema producer pick to coincide with the coronation of a King of England? This was one problem which last year faced Warner Brothers' Associate Executive in Charge of Production Hal Wallis. For a cinema producer, problems never come singly. Another and more difficult riddle for Producer Wallis was this: what were the best roles in which to cast two 12-year-old identical twins who looked so much alike that their mother could scarcely tell them apart? One test of a cinema producer...
Invariable question raised by every cinema fan magazine about every child actor is whether or not the child actor is "unspoiled." Equally invariable is the fan magazine answer: No. Whether or not the Mauchs are unspoiled, time will tell. Tricking people about their identity, however, is by no means the only Mauch peccadillo. Two years ago, when Bobby was sick, the Mauch twins got a chemistry set. With it they have since compounded a mixture of ink and ketchup for making spots on bedspreads; an ink spot remover, for removing the spots; and a rotten egg extract, for harmlessly discommoding...
Without imagination Syracuse is a dull port city with a museum, a Bar maid, 500 donkeys, 70,000 inhabitants and a cinema where Rudolph Valentino plays one week and Bambino Shirley Temple the next. But this is not the Syracuse you will love...
...dailies and the Sunday-supplement American Weekly. By no means did Mr. Hearst tell all. Although the registrations took in the entire string of Hearst magazines they covered only one-third of the Hearst newspapers, included nothing on such Hearst interests as King Features, Hearst Metrotone News, Cosmopolitan Productions (cinema). But revealed in some 250 pages of text and tabulations was many a Hearst publishing secret, many a Hearst business oddity...
...town on a mountain top with an Otis escalator going up, a Grand Hotel on the highest peak, the American Express on Main Street and Haig and Haig on every other bill board. And you'll meet an Oxford student at every bar, a Harvard man in every cinema and an American no matter where you are. And sometimes you're awfully glad...