Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instincts aroused, Zola writes his famous editorial J'accuse ("I accuse"), charging the army with conspiracy and daring anyone to try him for treason. The army takes the dare. Zola's trial lasts 30 minutes on the screen, with speeches longer than cinemaddicts are supposed by most Hollywood producers to be willing to hear. Zola's rhetoric is no match for the mass of lying evidence and the judge's prejudice. Convicted, he flees to England. But presently a new French Government orders the Dreyfus case reopened and the prisoner is acquitted. In real life Zola...
...from the Hays office and manned by such potent schoolmen as Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman, President Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director Mark May of Yale's Institute of Human Relations, is to break this vicious circle by opening the vaults of Hollywood for school use. Four years ago broad-beamed Educator May and Dean Howard Le Sourd of the Boston University Graduate School set out to experiment in this direction by extracting morally helpful episodes from old feature films. Encouraged by Arthur De Bra, a soft-spoken Hays lieutenant who was once...
Ourselves Alone (Gaumont-British), whose title is a free translation of the Gaelic Sinn Fein, differs from Hollywood investigations of that Irish revolutionary group by approaching it from a temperate and somewhat more realistic British viewpoint. Not entirely neglecting the poetry of The Informer and The Plough And The Stars or the star-crossed romance of Beloved Enemy, Ourselves Alone is concerned chiefly with the hard...
...pawky Irish supporting cast, Ourselves Alone will relieve U. S. curiosity regarding Cinemactor John Davis Lodge, the grandson of a onetime Massachusetts Senator and brother of a present one, who left the law for an acting career five years ago. After an un-happy series of roles in Hollywood climaxed when he appeared opposite Marlene Dietrich in The Scarlet Empress in a neck-length wig, vigorous, clean-cut Cinemactor Lodge seems to have found a niche in British cinema. So pleased were his producers by his work in Ourselves Alone that he is now under a long-term starring contract...
First whisperings of a slipping Equity were heard in 1929 when President Gillmore descended upon Hollywood to persuade that still rambunctious community to join up with Equity. He returned to Broadway with no cinema contracts. It was not until in 1933 that Hollywood, by then feeling public stirrings of social-consciousness, formed a haphazard Screen Actors Guild which, like Equity, received its charter from American Federation of Labor through a loose-knitted "International" organization called Associated Actors & Artistes of America (A. A. A. A.) Not even Equity members were sure whether it was victory or a concession when Gillmore thereupon...