Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema contract lured him in 1930 to Hollywood but he prematurely returned, agreeing with his wife that "it was a dream." With A Modern-Hero Bromfield's old and profitable contract with Publisher Stokes ends. When young Publishers John Farrar &; Stanley Rinehart bought out Hearst-owned Cosmopolitan Book Corp. in 1931, trade talk was that Author Bromfield had contracted with Cosmopolitan for his five next books at $60,000 each (TIME, Oct. 5). Over some
...cinema ushered in the hotel theme with the monumental productions, "Grand Hotel" and "Hotel Universe." The public has found both types good, with the result that Tiffany has laid the setting of the activities of a gang of smooth, hard criminals in black fedoras, amid the cosmopolitan finery of "Hotel Continental." And the Playgoer has found good after a visit to the University theatre...
...varies the unity-of-place idea by nearly personifying it. This time the hotel is an old one about to be torn down and the denizens who scamper through its antique corridors are bent on the forlorn gaiety of a farewell party. Mingling with the other guests is a cosmopolitan thief (Theodore Von Eltz) who hopes to retrieve some money which he cached in a fireplace long before. He experiences some trouble getting it because there is a party in the suite where it is hidden and because his accomplice turns out to be a lady member of a rival...
Tempting, newsworthy is a book just promised to U. S. readers by smart Ray Long who used to edit Cosmopolitan. In London last week Publisher Long said that he actually possessed a signed contract binding Josef Stalin and Maxim Gorky jointly to write a book...
Against this background of decorative chaos, Shanghai Express is refreshingly vital. The story is simple and somewhat absurd. It is the tale of a cosmopolitan group thrown together on the long run from Peiping to Shanghai and of their evolution as individuals under the stress and strain of revolutionary China. To know the plot is not necessary for the appreciation of the picture, as the dramatic importance lies entirely in the development of the characters...