Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enmeshed in the celluloid toils, and tells him where to go when he tries to sweep her off to his California paradise. She sees her best friend in the Footlight Club, the actress's refuge, escape from failure by way of poison. She sees a beautiful nitwit accept a film contract which she herself turns down, get acclaimed by the moviegoing public, and return to do a play on Broadway, sponsored by her Philistine boss. But David Kingsley a sensitive fellow who regrets having sold his soul to the latter potentate, persuades the man to discard his vapid beauty...
...York Woman in rapid succession, was selected to serve up a magazine of household utility, designed to tell women how to use the food they buy. Fashioned around menus and home hints, the 8½-in. by 11½-in. 32-page magazine will carry no fiction or film gossip as does Family Circle...
...over a period of ten years. Last week word reached the U. S. of the latest Les Chantiers du Cardinal-the Cardinal's building jobs. Soon to arise at Joinville-le-Pont, where the French cinema industry is largely centred (Paramount and Pathe studios and laboratories, Kodak-Pathe film factory), is a church for local workers. Its name: Notre-Dame...
...that when his War-novel (A Farewell to Arms) was being cinematized he took pains to deny all publicity stories of a more glamorous military career, scotched plans for a "world premiere" at Piggot, Ark. (where he happened to be staying), by fleeing the town before the film's arrival...
...hitherto well-hidden social consciousness, enlisted him violently on the Loyalist side. No longer big-incomed, he managed to raise $40,000 on his personal notes and dispatched the sum to buy ambulances for Madrid, followed soon after (with Joris Ivens, John Ferno, John Dos Passos) to film The Spanish Earth. Returning last June to soundtrack his commentary on the film, he paused long enough to pronounce before the League of American Writers, in his first public speech, a scathing indictment of Fascism, to collect at one private showing of the film in Hollywood $15,000 for Loyalist aid. Though...