Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...informative sketch of the structure of a film and its component parts. He gives his opinion of the proper aims of the cinema and of the roads which will lead to dead ends. The examples used for illustration in his analysis are mainly from the regular run of Hollywood productions; he is less in interested in purely theoretical experi- ments than he is in the improvement of commercial cinema. For the student of the cinema the book is invaluable by virtue of a large bibliography...
...Already the cinema is beginning to realize 'its true functions; the theatre is losing its desire frenziedly to copy the novel devices of the cinema," says Mr. Nicoll. The great mistake has been that Broadway and Hollywood have tried to be like each other. The cinema should not try to reproduce closely stage plays. In the development of his conviction that the stage and screen are fundamentally different in their possibilities, lies the real value of the book...
...steamship deck. Sam Dodsworth (Walter Huston) who has just asked the steward for a drink that will soothe his nerves, whirls around, surprised. Mr. Dodsworth's surprise was nothing to that of Producer Sam Goldwyn and his staff when, at this line, I he audience at a Hollywood preview last week burst into applause. The applauders were not partisans of stout but of Mary Astor, whose first line they recognized even before the camera moved over to her. Throughout the picture they kept applauding frequently and as she was coming out of the theatre in the flesh with Screenwriter...
Fencing is Lovet-Lorski's favorite sport. He trained this summer with the Austrian Olympic team to keep in practice. Besides maintaining his San Francisco studio he spends several weeks every summer in Hollywood, roistering with friends in the cinema colony. They have not been entirely misspent holidays. Some time ago he completed bronze busts of his friends Rouben Mamoulian and Edward G. Robinson, and last winter Cinemactress Marion Davies persuaded William Randolph Hearst to buy a heroic Lovet-Lorski Venus...