Word: gateway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe, crisscrossed north and south as well as east and west by sworling mountain ranges, the theatres of war are limited with almost mathematical precision. Every great plain and basin in western and central Europe has been soaked in blood, every pass and gap and gateway has been powdered by the hobnails of marching men. Possession of the mountain bastions frequently determines just whose plains and basins are the site of bloodletting...
...before closing; 2) that any profits worth talking about so far had been rung up by three concessionaires: Frank Buck's monkey mountain, Jungleland; Life Saver's Parachute Jump; Billy Rose's Aquacade. Housed in the Marine Amphitheatre in the New York State Building, at the gateway to the amusement section and smack across the Fair from the Trylon & Perisphere Theme Centre, the Aquacade and its huge electric sign last week flashed out one of the most amazing success stories in the anthology of show business...
...year-old pastor of the Highland Park Church of Christ at Fort Worth, Texas, encountered a sore temptation. During the Fort Worth "Frontier Centennial" he met smart little Showman Billy Rose, who told him he would do well in the movies. When Producer Jesse L. Lasky's Gateway to Hollywood contest set up its sideshow in Fort Worth fortnight ago, star-rapt Parson McClung thought he saw his chance. So did Lasky's talent scouts, who put him down as the best prospect† they had found in many a Texas mile...
Career (RKO Radio) launches those of Alice Eden and John Archer, victors in a nationwide radio contest for new talent conducted by oldtime Producer Jesse Lasky on his Gateway to Hollywood radio hour. To the call for "young men not less than five feet nine inches tall with physical characteristics similar to those of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, etc." and for similar feminine paragons, Gateway to Hollywood got 40,000 applicants, 8,000 of whom were auditioned in 23 U. S. cities. "John Archer" is Ralph Bowman of Lincoln, Neb., 24, in looks a genteel replica...
Unfortunately for Alice Eden and John Archer, who acquit themselves well in it, the story of Career suggests that a Gateway to Hollywood contest for screenwriters might also be a good idea...