Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handy girl around his studio. Buyers of obscene postcards were attracted by her looks. She was passed up to Mr. Henry Pu Yi and on to the Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang who then ruled Manchuria. Meanwhile she was fast becoming famed Miss Butterfly Wu of China's Hollywood. One night, after the Young Marshal had given orders that he was not to be disturbed in Miss Wu's theatre, his frantic Chinese officers discovered that Japanese troops were attempting to seize his capital, that the keys of the Chinese arsenal were, as usual, on the Young Marshal...
...with or without the somewhat tremulous accompaniment of Mr. Boles, sings // I Should Lose You, Little Rose of the Rancho, The Vigilante Song, Where Is My Love. By her singing Contralto Swarthout makes it clear that, in the current operatic sweepstakes, she will not be out distanced by the Hollywood field. She is less buoyant than Columbia's blonde Grace Moore, but she has more chic. MGM's svelte Jeanette MacDonald may do better in her underwear, but Contralto Swarthout's throat muscles do not wiggle. Over RKO's little Lily Pons, she has the definite...
TIME, Nov. 25 said: "In the worst U. S. opera ever produced at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House there appeared last winter a soprano so shapely, so vividly blonde that she seemed more like a transient from Hollywood than a potential singer of real grand opera. In the Pasha's Garden was such a flaccid, sterile piece, offered such feeble opportunities that critics would only say that Helen Jepson was unusually pretty...
...thank Ethiopia's stars. The astounding marvel is that Africa's unique Museum of Peoples has produced a businessman-with high-pressure publicity, compelling sales talk, the morals of a patent medicine advertisement, a grasp of both savage and diplomatic mentality, and finally with plenty of what Hollywood calls IT. The Emperor was "too smart" only once in 1935, when he tried by granting the Rickett Concession to Standard Oil to embroil the U. S. directly in Ethiopia's defense. In His Majesty's favorite phrase the entire situation is still "subject to negotiation...
...second-rate picture with first-rate trimmings, the fundamental absurdity of Dangerous is partially disguised in the suave dialog written for it by Laird Doyle and by the presence of Bette Davis, currently Hollywood's No. 1 impersonator of femmes fatales, whose wicked eye-poppings outdo those with which she made her reputation in Of Human Bondage. Typical shot: Franchot Tone muttering, "It can't go on like this...