Word: egomanias
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...they cause each other before achieving final reconciliation. When the wife leaves the orchestra leader, she runs into such troubles as alcoholism, fainting spells and fits of giggles to conceal her breaking heart. When she refuses to take him back, he experiences the same symptoms, with overtones of rudeness, egomania and, finally, prostration. The only thing that makes these developments, usually reserved for pictures aimed at double bills, remarkable in Break of Hearts, is that herein they are the vehicle for two such Hollywood celebrities as Charles Boyer and Katharine Hepburn...
Organized in 1927 to promote mutual understanding between the various branches of the industry, the high-sounding Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences now exists mainly for an annual banquet at which its 700 members can gorge, guzzle and gratify their egomania by awarding prizes for meritorious cinema performances. Last month it looked as if this year's banquet might degenerate into an open brawl. Cliques in the Academy objected to the six nominations for best performances because Bette Davis, Shirley Temple, George Arliss and others were omitted. The Awards Committee quickly changed its rules to permit members...
...Samuel Johnson's Saturday Evening Post serial The Blue Eagle from Egg to Earth much less offensive than he expected (TIME, Dec. 31, et seq.), told a Miami audience: "I question your interest even in the harrowing tale of the transition of the Blue Eagle from egg to egomania...