Word: concoctions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reno last fall, Hollywood reported that her fun-loving husband was seen dancing Big Apples with Garbo at Hollywood house parties. But the report had a cooked-up whiff to it. Garbo's Conquest was ready for release, and before such events Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pressagents invariably concoct romantic blurbs. But when last December "Stoky" drank fond farewells with Greta in Manhattan on the eve of her departure for Europe, most people agreed that something more than publicity was in the air. When Conductor Stokowski himself sailed for Italy last month, correspondents got orders to keep their eyes peeled...
Many Mansions was the product of a father-&-son collaboration. Jules Eckert Goodman, a weathered playwright (Potash and Perlmutter, 21 others), eagerly helped Son Eckert concoct his first play. The well-meant result is like Alice's Mock Turtle...
...story of That Girl from Paris, which it took four screenwriters to concoct, deals with the transatlantic romance between a Paris singer and a U. S. bandleader (Gene Raymond). Its real purpose -that of punctuating a series of closeups of the star which could be exciting only to her dentist-is transcended occasionally by moments of brash comedy contributed by the _ band's mercurial drummer (Jack Oakie) and its sad-visaged Communist pianist (Mischa Auer...
...FEATHER CLOAK MURDERS-Darwin and Hildegarde Teilhet-Crime Club ($2). Brave Baron von Kaz (The Ticking Terror Murders) reappears on U. S. territory to unscramble a murderous mess in the Hawaiian Islands. Out of the Baron's prowlings, tantrums, and passion for the beauteous Caryl, Authors Teilhet concoct a tale whose underpinnings are stouter than the average thriller...
...Summer (by Samuel Nathaniel Behrman; Theatre Guild, producer). Like George Bernard Shaw, another regular contributor of wit & wisdom to the Theatre Guild, Playwright Behrman is no longer called upon to concoct a full-fledged drama every time he has assembled enough conversation for a three-act play. Therefore an informed playgoer seldom expects to find great vital issues being wrestled around a Behrman drawing room. What he does expect is a series of sage, civilized and exhaustive discussions on Problems of the Day. This he gets in full measure in End of Summer...