Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class ideas they would not live in Clichy. Some of these shopkeepers belong to the new French Social Party, successor to the bourgeois Croix de Feu league of gentle manly and insipid Colonel Count Casimir de La Rocque (TIME, April 20). Last week the Social Party hired the Olympia cinema house in Clichy for a special showing of their film La Bataille. Communists at once protested. Paris police authorities ruled that entry to the Olympia would be by card only, and that evening a careful police cordon verified that everyone who entered the theatre was, actually a Social Party member...
...Manhattan, Director George Cukor described the kind of girl he was looking for to play Scarlett O'Hara in the cinema version of Gone With The Wind which he will direct for Selznick International. "The girl I select," said he, "must be possessed of the devil and charged with electricity. . . I want some one new. What I want is a really young and attractive girl but she must be stupid, cruel and relentless." Hollywood three days later it was revealed that the role had been assigned to Miriam Hopkins...
This complicated but well-related episode is the beginning of a kind of melodrama which the cinema can tell superbly, and which it recently has been neglecting. No effort is made to tone down characters and incidents to the neat artistic patterns of the current vogue...
...ballyhooed by Paramount, the picture's chief virtues are providing pretty Carole Lombard with a few comedy lines almost up to the standard of the ones she had in My Man Godfrey; and reminding cinemaddicts that Fred MacMurray, who can really play a trombone, got his start in cinema after a five-year career as a member of the California Collegians. Most maudlin shot: Skid's response to the information that Maggie is going to leave him-tooting Mendelssohn's Wedding March discordantly in a hotel corridor...
...Chips) has anything more or better than 1) an ability to write smooth narrative; 2) an infectious British sentimentality. But such cat-laughs have been drowned out by the popular verdict. All but the most sea-green critics would agree that to have two novels simultaneously reproduced in the cinema* is equivalent to one plaster bust in the Hall of Fame. Last week Author Hilton put out his latest little number, the first to appear in three years. First readers found it about the same size and consistency as his famed Mr. Chips-with perhaps just a dash less salt...