Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companion picture, "Wings of the Morning" serves to introduce to the moviegoing public a new and delightful personality - Annabella. A sympathetic performer with a simple, winning charm. She dominates the film from beginning to end, throwing Henry Fonda's performance into the shade...
...companion picture this week "The Plot Thickens" features Zazu Pitts and Jimmy Gleason" in a rather stereotype mystery-farce. The culpit, oddly enough, proved to be not the most innocent appearing of the suspects, yet not the one most implicated...
Last big job of magazine writing by Mrs. Roosevelt was "Mrs. Roosevelt's Page," a feature of Crowell Publishing Co.'s sturdy Woman's Home Companion for two years from August 1933 to July 1935.* Last autumn, Mrs. Roosevelt began dictating her autobiography, carried it up to the Democratic National Convention of 1924, showed the manuscript to Franklin Roosevelt when it was done. The President suggested no changes, and Mrs. Roosevelt's dapper literary agent, George T. Bye, made the sale not to Crowell's Companion but to Curtis Publishing Co.'s Home Journal...
...unhappy contrast, "Mad Holiday"' the companion feature, with Edmund Lowe and Elissa Landi, is rather slow and hackneyed. Philip Trent (Edmund Lowe), a movie actor wearied of his acedetective role in mystery films, boards a ship for a vacation cruise. On the steamer he meets Phyllis (Elissa Landi), author of many of his scripts, and together they get involved in the murder of a wealthy man and the disappearance of his famous diamond. Somehow murder on shipboard is a favorite sport with Hollywood producers, and this one leads Philip and Phyllis in and out of staterooms for fifteen torturous minutes...
First was Woman's Home Companion (2,848,550), second Ladies' Home Journal (2,786,219), third McCall's (2,501,074)-(see below). Fourth was Pictorial Review with 2,108,579. When 69-year-old Delineator came fifth with 1,487,118, magazine dockers sensed that the field was overcrowded, knew that some one would have to be ruled off the track. Last week the new magazine line-up for ladies became known. Pending approval by stockholders this week, Delineator was to be liquidated, its readership swallowed by Pictorial Review, to give that Hearst property...