Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country-from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast-playing with and against all the players who were at the National Championships and demonstrating the game to thousands of people, I think I am in a position to take exception to the clause in your article which says that Hollywood is one of the few places where the vogue of badminton has taken root outdoors. This is a very misleading statement. The leading wholesale badminton house in this country sold, during the past three years, more than three to four times the number of racquets and "birds" for outdoor...
...hoodlums using toy automobiles to rehearse a holdup, Behind the Headlines is an unusually exciting program melodrama. To Lee Tracy addicts it marks one more, perhaps a permanent "comeback" of their favorite, who is now alleged to have forsworn the haywire ways which brought him into disrepute with Hollywood producers. Diana Gibson looks like an outdoor version of Marion Nixon and acts with a promising swing. Best shots: Tracy defeating his hecklers by getting into the burning dance hall through the skylight; the Potter gang capturing the gold shipment by overcoming the staff of the armored car with gas released...
...action follows the book very closely; there is a longer introduction before you actually get out on the water, for it takes Hollywood longer than it took Kipling to create the character of rich, spoiled Harvey; but from then on it is all Kipling and the characters portray the gripping tale with the greatest acting you are likely to see on the screen this year--Harvey, Manuel, Captain Disko (Lionel Barrymore), Long Jack. Perhaps the only sour note is the millionaire, Harvey's soupy father, played by Melvyn Douglas; it is doubtful if he is just what Kipling meant...
...either seaman or landlubber, can fail to get a thrill out of those shots of the schooner plowing through the seas, scuppers awash; or fail to get a sense of peace from seeing the vessel ghosting through a Grand Banks fog. At last Hollywood has realized the possibilities of filming the sea accurately and dramatically, and it will now stand besides the photography of "Man of Aran." Do not fail to see this picture...
...Star is Born," now showing at Loew's State and Orpheum is a picture that, besides being filmed in color, is as nice a combination of the tragic and the comic as Hollywood has yet produced. Judging from the reaction of yesterday's audience. Producer Seiznick really has something this time, for the men chuckled heartily, the women wept gently, and everyone enjoyed the show...