Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Business Manager for Mrs. Harry Houdini Hollywood, Calif...
First mass action of some 10,000 graduate nurses, assembled last week in Los Angeles for concurrent conventions of three national nurses' associations, was to be blessed by a Protestant Episcopal bishop in the Hollywood Bowl. They next heard a "vested chorus" of Los Angeles nurses, who had practiced for months, gently sing Green Cathedral. Cinemactress Kay Francis who plays Florence Nightingale, nurses' special saint, in The White Angel (see p. 49), was put on exhibition, along with her director of this latest Warner Bros, cinematic biography. Handsome, informed Susan Catherine Francis of Philadelphia, president of the American...
...over again, returns to London, gets from Queen Victoria a brooch and the recognition which has been her aim: that women are worthy to be wartime nurses and that nursing is a profession fit for worthy women. Since an average feature picture costs $300,000 to make, very few Hollywood producers care to experiment. A few departures from banal routine have established Warner Brothers, in their own eyes at least, as bold pathfinders in the realm of entertainment. Last autumn, with The Story of Louis Pasteur, Warner Brothers made the astonishing discovery that straightforward biography, long a well-rewarded branch...
...yodeling Nearer, My God, To Thee in a tent settlement when Blackie rediscovers her, kneels down to talk to God. A shrewd compendium of romance and catastrophe, with emphasis on the latter, skilfully administered by Director Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke, San Francisco is an excellent example of Hollywood's ability to make yesterday's headlines as exciting as today's. Good shot: The bent figure on a pediment pitching slowly forward...
Lester Cohen was born 34 years ago in Chicago, wrote a novel of department-store life (Sweepings) which became a bestseller, then settled in Hollywood to write for the movies. He says in Two Worlds that after years of this work he set forth "bound for the beauty and wonder of the world, and a better understanding of our troubled, chaotic time." With his wife he went first to France, then to England, where he listened to debates in Parliament about fascism, then to Russia, Turkey, Greece, Palestine, Egypt, Ceylon, India, China, Japan. Since they traveled over conventional paths...