Word: filmland
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Remembering how the movies botched The Human Comedy, even though it "gave the movies a very rich terrain to work in," he is meeting filmland feelers about his new book with un-Saroyanesque silence. Says he: "My hunch is that it's nearly a great book. That is something you hate to say, but that's my feeling...
Unpatriotic is the mildest adjective possible for the pro-poll-tax Senators' use of the cherished right to filibuster. The tactics that made filmland's Senator Jimmie Stewart a hero in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" put real-life Senator Bilbo and his fourteen-odd accomplices in far more villainous roles. As vital Axis propaganda material they hold the center of the world stage. It is up to the American people to hiss them...
...club's second meeting, the services of Professor N. A. Milas of M.I.T. have been secured. Professor Milas will speak on "Auto-oxidation and Organic Peroxides," and will give a rather spectacular demonstration of Leminescence. The movie "A Trip Through Filmland" will be shown. At the December meeting, Professor Louis Fieser of Harvard will present a lecture with demonstrations on his recent cancer investigations. Additional movies being considered are "Extraction of Bremine from Sea Water," 'Electrical Refrigeration." and "The Mining of Sulfur...
...bald, acquisitive William Fox was the grand panjandrum of filmland. Next year he was ousted from control of his companies by a coalition of creditors. With $21,000,000 in cold cash and a five-year pension of $500,000 annually, he was well able to finance a comeback if he could find something to come back with. He thought he had it in patents, bought abroad and transferred to his personal holding company, covering the "double print" method of recording both sound and picture on a single film and the "sprocket" or "flywheel" method of reproduction, which were universally...
...story is concerned with the rise in filmland first of the Kellys through the efforts of the daughter Kitty through the efforts of the daughter Kitty (June Clyde) as an actress and then of the Cohens when the son Melville becomes a theme song writer. The Kellys, as nouveaux riches, fancy themselves disgraced by the Cohens, who follow them to Hollywood. Miss Edna May Oliver could do this to perfection but the Kellys merely blunder through in their usual way, while Kitty, in the pursuit of her art, makes burlesque melodramas for which there is no apparent reason except...