Word: epic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been explicable only as a tribute to the superhuman shrewdness of that young woman's press-agents. Herr Hitler last year awarded to an actress of comparable popularity exclusive permission to make cinema recordings of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin next summer as part of a propaganda epic which will be shown later to German cinemaddicts throughout the Fatherland. Except to those who are Cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl's rivals in the cinema industry, this seemed to Nazis an entirely appropriate gesture...
...cinema stars, noted for her daring in playing dangerous sequences without a double, her fondness for being photographed in mountainous scenery, her nickname of "Ölige Ziege" (Oily Goat), impolitely coined by a German cinema critic. In 1933, U. S. audiences were able to see Fraulein Riefenstahl in an epic called S. O. S. Iceberg, during the filming of which she lived in a Greenland tent for four months (TIME, Oct. 2, 1933). The same year, she wrote, directed and acted in The Blue Light, in which magnificent photography of the Dolomites as background for a fairy tale corroborated Leni...
...Hamilton Fish, Jr. '10, agreed in a debate last night held under the auspices of the Ford Hall Forum. On the question "Resolved, That production for use shall supplant production for profit," the two speakers differed widely. First to speak, Sinclair took the affirmative, reiterating the principles of his Epic Plan...
Aside from Actor Laughton's performance, Mutiny on the Bounty is all that anyone would have any right to expect. The three-volume epic of Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island (TIME. Oct. 17, 1932; Jan. 15, 1934; Nov. 5, 1934), written from and for an amazing record, was not designed for neat conversion into a scenario. Despite the efforts of Producer Irving Thalberg, Director Frank Lloyd, three scenarists and $2,000,000 to give it balance, polish and direction, the picture lacks all three. There are intervals when the two hours...
...Last Days of Pompeii (RKO). The connection between this picture and Baron Bulwer-Lytton's famed novel begins and ends with the title. It is a massive melodrama relating in epic terms the life history of an Augustan prizefighter, ancient in its settings but modern in its methods, and equipped with everything from the Crucifixion to a holdup...