Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Victoria the Great is a whopping English imitation of a whopping Hollywood imitation of whopping English pageantry. In 113 minutes 60 years flicker past. The cast boasts 72 names, innumerable extras, is so huge that the part of Disraeli is taken not by one actor, but by both Derrick Demarney, who looks rather younger, and Hugh Miller, who looks rather older than George Arliss. Splendor nourishes itself on magnificence until, with all England jubilant, the picture bursts into a hopeful climax in technicolor...
...fires him, he organizes studio employes to defy the new owner, throws Nassau out with a jujitsu hold, saves Cheri's last picture by having it recut to star a gorilla. Stand-in is the most human as well as the most biting comedy yet written about Hollywood. After its preview, violent protests were made by rival organizations. Twentieth Century-Fox felt uneasiness because Joan Blondell burlesques Shirley Temple singing "The Good Ship Lolly-pop." Report had it that the character of Director Koslofski was a damaging caricature of Josef von Sternberg. Trade papers tittered that Stand-In laughed...
...Hollywood premieres are noted for fancy clothes and phoney congratulations. The first showing of the Department of Agriculture's documentary film, The River, at the little Strand Theatre in New Orleans last week, was marked by plain clothes and sincere praise. What the audience of educators, legislators, literati and plain people saw was a motion picture of startling photographic beauty, sweeping scope and social importance. A swift cinematic history of the vast Mississippi system from pre-Columbian times to yesterday afternoon, an inventory of its bounty and its toll, a report of Government reclamation activity, The River...
Champion Armstrong is by no means Hollywood's sole venture into sporting promotion. Middleweight Champion Freddy Steele is partly owned by Bing Crosby, who also supports a girls' baseball team called the Croonerettes, promotes a $3,000 golf tournament, and is the principal stockholder in the Del Mar racetrack near San Diego. Producers Hal Roach and Jack Warner are No. 1 and No. 2 stockholders in the Santa Anita racetrack. Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck, Mrs. Zeppo Marx and many another own horses. Clark Gable used to own one named Beverly Hills. Victor McLaglen...
...HOLLYWOOD THROUGH THE BACK DOOR - E. Nils Holstius - Longmans, Green ($2.50). Open-mouthed travelog of an English gramophone executive who tried to crash Hollywood as a scenarist, sometimes roamed Los Angeles disguised as a bum; told with minute, deadly earnestness as if he were the first white man to see the place...