Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hollywood, Calif., October 26--Bernard Vorhaus '25, the University's youngest scenario writer, whose first moving picture, "Sunlight", has met with favorable critical comment, will visit Cambridge soon. Vorhaus entered the University in 1921, and completed his course in three years with honors in English. He was then...
...producers of "Camille," now playing at the Metropolitan with Norman Talmadge in the main role, have indeed taken the bit into their tooth and the result so far is a run away. A second tragedy has been produced in Hollywood this year and it bids fair to be a success. So far no one but Emil Jannings had been intrusted with a movie tragedy in this country, and for a time it seemed that he would stand unchallenged in his field. In spite of many imperfections in the senario, the directing and the filming, one can do much worse than...
Married. Norma Shearer, 22, famed cinemactress; to Irving Grant Thalberg, 26, executive director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; in Hollywood. The ceremony was prolonged by the bride's unfamiliarity with responses in the Hebrew...
Sunrise. In Germany, F. W. Murnau, Ufa director, made The Last Laugh and Faust. Last week at a showing of his first Hollywood film, people looked to him, as usual, to repeat. In Sunrise he has a meagre story of a clod of a farmer who almost drowned his wife before realizing that he loved her. It is based on the story, "A Trip to Tilsit," by the German Hermann Sudermann, and manages to remain picturesquely soporific for a long evening. Janet Gaynor (seen in Seventh Heaven) contributes a pathetic beauty to the role of the girl-wife. The Student...
After a complete failure last spring to place even a single entry in the great Hollywood sweepstakes, Harvard has made a belated effort to hide her shame by completing a moving picture enterprise of her own. There may not be a single one of the ten thousand men of Harvard who knows how to use mascara or wear polo shirts open at the throat but, impossible as it may seem, there are demands for other kinds of actors. The films taken by the Harvard Athletic Association staff photographer, of which three copies are to be made in order to insure...