Word: colyumist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...draperies which seemed often to confuse the performers. Nonetheless many a Manhattanite had journeyed tediously to 155th Street to see the second U. S. operatic performance of lissome, dark Helen Gahagan, Belasco actress (Tonight or Never) turned singer. New Jersey-born, Brooklyn-raised, Actress Gahagan has been called by Colyumist Heywood Broun "ten of the twelve most beautiful women on the American stage." She made her operatic debut in Czechoslovakia, sang first in the U. S. during Cleveland's opera last summer. Last week's audience admired her dusky acting, applauded lustily when Impresario Maurice Frank thanked...
Next to Editrix Eleanor Patterson of the Washington Herald sat Colyumist Arthur Brisbane pecking away, eyes down cast, mouth drooping, at a noiseless type writer. Dedicated with the rest of the Hearst organization to the Presidential candidacy of Democrat John Nance Garner, he had little of interest to say about the Convention, but he, too, considered Reporter Rogers good copy. "It's a mistake about Will Rogers being so rich," wrote he. "John D. Rockefeller Jr., recently in Chicago, is much richer than Mr. Rogers, who if you asked him 'Where is your next million coming from,' would have...
...Author John Dos Passes, stern commentator on the American Scene, ingenuously delighted with his first National Convention which he, too, was to report for the New Republic at 2¢ a word. Publisher Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum looked on austerely from a private box. Scripps-Howard Colyumist Heywood Broun settled his flaccid paunch behind a narrow desk, wrote many a witty crack...
...Face Red? (RKO) takes a somewhat less complaisant view of colyumists. Its hero (Ricardo Cortez) is an impudent, conceited hack, perpetually touching pitch. "I am a mirror reflecting the spirit of the times," he says, and later: "I am the guy who made Broadway famous." He has a girl (Helen Twelvetrees) but he is careless of her feelings and takes up with a richer one (Jill Esmond). Presently he writes for his colyum a description of a murder before the police have found the corpse. This causes an indignant Sicilian to crawl into his office and shoot...
Merrily We Go to Hell (Paramount). This is about a colyumist (Fredric March) who differs from the other two because he has a home and is not much concerned with murdered racketeers. He marries the daughter (Sylvia Sidney) of a packing millionaire, after meeting her behind a row of bottles at a penthouse. He grieves her by getting drunk inopportunely. He is drunk when they meet, drunk at her announcement party, slightly addled for their wedding, in a partial stupor on the night that his play, a "satiric comedy" in Restoration costume, has its premiere. "Merrily we go to hell...