Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Henry H. Ogden, Los Angeles aviation instructor, U. S. Army round-the-world flyer (1924); to Ulela Snook of Hollywood...
...Sweden several years ago, brought the disturbing face of Greta Garbo to the notice of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Co. Lars Hanson (here Gosta Berling, an unfrocked Swedish preacher in love with a Count's wife in a Nobel Prize story by Selma Lagerlöf) came to Hollywood with her but quarreled with directors, protested against the stupidity of the roles they gave him, went back to Stockholm where he is now a leading "legit" actor. Miss Garbo, too, after immediate success, showed temperament but was soothed. In this picture, awkwardly constructed, ludicrously titled, finely acted, richly...
...turned out to be a brilliant, tiresome piece of Soviet propaganda. In an impressionistic manner not, as is commonly believed, originated by him, Director Eisenstein shows kaleidoscopic guns firing, statues falling, bottles breaking in superimposed shots the rapidity of which strains the eyes and makes them hard to watch. Hollywood directors, advised by intellectuals to learn their Eisenstein, would profit little from seeing, as they will not, this newsreel of the Russian revolution which lacks the most valuable feature that a newsreel can have-impartiality...
...Hollywood, Universal Co. began to make The Five Frankforters, a story about the Rothschild family. Assistant director is Wilfred Rothschild, onetime Wall Street runner, member of the family...
...metaphors of an epic poet the story moves to its climax in the hall of Attila, king of the earth, where the last of the Niebelungs sing their death-song under the burning roof. With a sound accompaniment this picture, the last made in the UFA studios before Hollywood companies bought up their talent, would be a novel and supreme form of grand opera...