Word: gloom
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Consternation ran high. When Dockweiler combed the studios before election, palm outstretched for contributions, all he got was the air. Fitts had been there first. On election night the "Fitts Victory Ball" collapsed early in a welkin of gloom. Industry patriarchs burned their lamps late exchanging phone calls on ways & means of getting on pleasanter terms with Dockweiler. In his next Hollywood Reporter editorial, W. R. ("Billy") Wilkerson, the industry's mouthpiece, trumpeted: "The King is dead. Long live the King." With lachrymose solemnity he recalled that Fitts had been a great friend, protecting the industry from phonies...
...gloom over Tremont Street these days might be issuing from the Shubert or Plymouth theatres, or then again, it might just be smoke from the cigars of the two Messrs. Shuberts and Mr. Abbott as they ponder the cruel world and what it has done to their new openings...
...Monday night the gloom over Tremont Street should be lifting. Flora Robson's "Ladies In Retirement" is the best murder-mystery to chill Broadway in years. And Joe E. Brown is coming to town in "Elmer the Great," which created a panic in summer theatre. What with Ruth Gordon's "Here Today" playing away to a cheering house at the Copley, you might just as well forget about the mistakes of the past week...
...Going into the gloom of dark cinema houses, people are likely to stumble, bump into others. Ushers with flashlights are nuisances; small lamps placed near the aisle floors illuminate only small areas. American Cyanamid Co. announced what it considers a better idea: aisle rugs treated with fluorescent dyes, bathed by invisible ultraviolet radiation from small tubes. Such rugs glow softly all over, interfere with nothing on the screen. General Electric's House of Magic at the New York World's Fair has a fluorescent aisle...
...must be reunited, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom of Europe until they become the veritable beacons of its salvation...