Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...control the weather. Another thing no dictator can do is make cinemaddicts prefer one movie star to another. Hollywood's dictator, the box office, realistically recognizes this fact, always bows to the unpredictable will of the people. Last week a nationwide poll on the comparative popularity of current cinema stars showed Hollywood which way to bow. The one-day poll was conducted by 53 newspapers of the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate (combined circulation approximately 20,000,000) in the U. S. and Canada. Results (male and female separately...
Interviewed by the London Daily Express, the victorious Viscount reminisced: "Miss Royle used to enjoy watching the train in action. When it came to making carriages she was not so keen. I would often get into trouble for working on them instead of taking her to a cinema. Then there were all the tools for making the coaches-special tools for working in miniature. With them I could run up a coach in a fortnight. In fact, experts have congratulated me on some of the coaches I have made. One day I hope to make a model locomotive. I have...
High Flyers (RKO Radio), a prettified thing of unfunny gags and attenuated plot, writes a wavering finis to Wheeler-Woolsey film comedy. The cinema first paired Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler in 1929 in Rio Rita. Since then they have been teamed in a dozen or more comedies, hitting their stride with pictures like Half Shot at Sunrise, Hold 'Em Jail, Hips, Hips, Hooray, skidding badly of late with Silly Billies, Mummy's Boys. Goggled, gaunt, aging Robert Woolsey completed High Flyers with a fever of 102, a doctor and nurse in attendance, has been ordered into retirement...
...rank of lieutenant-commander (reserve), spends vacations on navy cruises. Ebb Tide (Paramount). The tall tale, originally told by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, of the adventures of three beachcombers in a stolen schooner never bore up very well under literary scrutiny. But in the kindlier glow of cinema Technicolor, Ebb Tide's whoppers become leisurely implausibilities, and the story's calm unreality is disturbed only by a thumpingly real and remarkably photogenic typhoon...
...wear the navy uniform," says old grad Lionel Barrymore to the football squad in Navy Blue and Gold, "nobody cares greatly whether you win or lose. But Navy cares greatly how you play the game." How they play the game in this film, under the hipper-dipper cinema coaching of Hollywood Director Sam Wood, is enough to make old-time Annapolis Coach Navy Bill Ingram turn over in his present berth...