Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...golden age" which all operagoers ever 50 recall with sighs, the famous Rodolfos of Puccini's La Boheme (Bonci, Caruso, Gigli) had powerful voices and rotund figures. Today's cinema-bred audiences demand smaller bellies, and get, as a rule, weaker diaphragms. Old-time opera fans do not mind the drop in avoirdupois, but they sniff contemptuously at the comparatively microphonic murmuring that goes with...
...passed by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Hollywood knows better. Since 1919 the industry has paid almost $1,000,000, at the set reviewing-charge rate of $6.25 a reel, for the sweeping imprimatur, "Passed by the National Board of Review." To better cinema groups, women's clubs, educational organizations and to some State and municipal legislatures, this O. K. has signified a tested product. And the industry, well aware that few films submitted ever fail to pass, has been more than happy to pay the modest reviewing charge for this sort of testing...
...Comes Back (Warner Bros.). Sock for sock, the prize ring cannot compare with its cinema counterpart for fury, excitement, sustained pace; this, in spite of the fact that few actors are natural sockers. Newest and most natural of the cinema sockers is rangy, 190-pound, six-footer Wayne Morris. Socker Morris, turning 24 this week, lashes out with the unrepressed indignation of a small boy fighting over a marble game. And he really knows something about boxing. In the course of training for his Warner Bros. career, he has K.O.'d a whole row of professional roughnecks...
...Girl Was Young (Gaumont British). Cinema's top man for melodrama is England's roly-poly, impish-eyed Director Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Secret Agent). Last year, flushed with cinema success and much hearty beef-eating, Director Hitchcock decided to try one of his thrillers against the placid background of the English countryside. Said he: "I want to commit murder amid babbling brooks." The result teams 18-year-old Nova Pilbeam and Play Actor Derrick de Marney in a melodramatic hodge-podge that lacks the vivid outlines and clear characterizations...
...Mayer) stars 15-year-old Judy Garland, Hollywood's latest child singer. She turns the morning singing hour of the Colvin School for Girls into a swing session. Sent home to the jittery bosom of a family infected with the slightly threadbare lunacy which has been bothering recent cinema families, she croons her way to a career with the help of Olga, a screwball maid (Fanny Brice), and Ricky (Allan Jones), a singing chef. Best of the Kaper-Jurmann tunes: Swing, Mr. Mendelssohn. Best Fanny Brice number: Quainty Dainty Me with her famed spirit-of-spring technique...