Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among recent visitors were Nancy Carroll (stage and cinema). Gladys Swarthout (opera), Mrs. Byron Foy (society), Lilly Daché (hats), Hattie Carnegie (gowns), Mrs. Florence Camp ("My Everything" of Bundleader Fritz Kuhn, who was in Sing Sing...
...years went by and Pianist Levant showed no signs of becoming another Paderewski, he drifted off to Hollywood. As a friend of the late George Gershwin, he became successively a: 1) cinemactor, 2) assistant to a producer of Westerns, 3) composer of cinema scores, 4) one-hit tunesmith (Lady Play Your Mandolin), 5) one-piece piano virtuoso (the famed Gershwin-Grofé Rhapsody in Blue), and an intermittent pupil of famed Arnold Schönberg, who taught him how to write complicated high-brow music. When, nine years later, he returned to Manhattan to conduct and arrange music for shows...
...long list of trades by publishing a book of gossip and reminiscence. Modestly entitled A Smattering of Ignorance (Doubleday, Doran, $2), Author Levant's book races bumptiously and gabbily through 267 pages of anecdote about the great, near great, and not-so-great of the music and cinema worlds, pats Toscaninis and Stokowskis on the back, mourns worshipfully at the late George Gershwin's shrine, analyzes the musical gifts of Harpo Marx and Charlie Chaplin, chats wittily and continuously about Oscar Levant...
...Hunchback of Notre Dame (RKO) is a more spectacular remake of an old horror film in which the late Lon (Man of a Thousand Faces) Chancy, with the help of an elaborately repulsive makeup, set a standard for cinema frightfulness hard to beat. So hard, that the more repulsive make-up (by Perc Westmore) with which British Cinemactor Charles Laughton proposed to beat it was a devoutly cherished secret of this production. Thirty-four pounds lighter than Lon Chaney's, Laughton's make-up consists of a sponge-rubber right cheek and false eye socket, which covers Laughton...
...also has (for the first time in movies) veteran Actor Walter Hampden as the archdeacon of Victor Hugo's novel, now called the archbishop for the greater glory of the cinema. Walter Hampden, who heretofore has been suspected of scorning movies as beneath the dignity of U. S. Shakespearean Actor No. 1, made the great concession and this picture...