Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, Calif...
...Midsummer Night's Dream (Warner). A year ago Director Max Reinhardt took his famed stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream to the Hollywood Bowl. Its reception there impressed upon Cineman Jack Warner a fact long familiar to stage impresarios: although most people may doze through his plays, they will pay well to see William Shakespeare performed. With what the cinema industry immediately hailed as an unparalleled display of courage, optimism, and esthetic vision, Producer Warner thereupon started work...
...result is the first authentic effort in the history of cinema to produce a Shakespearean drama. Manufactured at a cost of $1,500,000, replete with a cast of Hollywood favorites, two directors, a Mendelssohn score and a Nijinska ballet, A Midsummer Night's Dream opened last week simultaneously in New York and London, accompanied by stampedes of mixed celebrities and louder cries of excitement from critics than have greeted any premiere in the last six months...
Long before A Midsummer Night's Dream had got beyond the casting stage in Hollywood, London literary bigwigs were holding indignation meetings to denounce Hollywood's "impudence" in meddling with such a classic. In London last week, where U. S. Ambassador Bingham, Mrs. Winston Churchill, the Marquess of Queensberry, Sir Philip Ben Greet, and a theatre full of their peers saw the opening. newspaper critics agreed that A Mid-summer Night's Dream was "exquisite." '"dazzling," ''magnificent," "of extraordinary beauty." In Manhattan, where so many reviewers attended the first night that the gala premiere...
...Pioneer Pictures will also function, some half dozen films a year at an average of $500,000 each. First on the list is Little Lord Fauntleroy, with Freddie Bartholomew,* starting Nov. 15, to be followed by an effort in Technicolor. Producer Selznick plans to bring Author Somerset Maugham to Hollywood. Directors George Cukor and John Cromwell, Actor Ronald Colman are now under contract...