Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Old Age Revolving Pensions was incorporated, they may at any time dissolve the organization, pocket its assets. Brother Walter was taken in on the deal with him and Dr. Townsend, explained the Co-Founder, because the law required a third incorporator. Brother Walter, 45, is head porter in Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel...
...Amateur Gentleman (Criterion). Hollywood producers who let Douglas Fairbanks Jr. go off to England to seek better roles and show what he knew about picture-making might do well to take a look at this sample of his ideas. The Amateur Gentleman set records in several London theatres. It was made by Fairbanks at the Gaumont plant, with money supplied by a London syndicate headed by Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, rich, conservative M. P. from St. Marylebone. A large canvas of early 19th Century London, it preserves with florid elegance the swagger of its period. In the early...
...necessarily the ablest. Last week, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the five college teams that qualified for the tournament to decide U. S. basketball entrants in next summer's Olympic Games fared poorly. Basketball representatives of two organizations as thoroughly nonacademic as Universal Pictures Corp. of Hollywood, and Globe Oil & Refining Co. of McPherson, Kans., met in the final...
...Aubrey Smith and his dog are trub the bright spots in a picture which might murder the appeal of Freddie Bartholemew for intelligent movie-goers. In "Copperfield" the boy was marvelous Please, Hollywood, don't make him into a male Shirley Temple...
...best can fail to be captivated by the charm, simplicity, and haunting loveliness of "Poil de Carotte," current attraction at the Fine Arts. Throughout this intensely arresting film one is aware of an earnest sincerity and gripping reality which afford a pleasing diversion from the superficial grist of the Hollywood mill. Rarely does a picture of this sort, dealing as it does with an acute psychological problem, meet with success from the several standpoints of characterization, sustained interest, and insight into the foibles of human behavior...