Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knife. Deftly he slits the Negro's throat from ear to ear. Returning to the young woman, who has now recovered, the immaculate avenger doffs his topper, bows from the waist saying, "Your purse, Madam," steps quickly back into his limousine, purrs away into the night. . . . Should a Hollywood producer present such a scene on the U. S. screen, audiences would doubtless groan or guffaw. Should any citizen of Atlanta behold such a scene on Ivy Street, near Cain, he would not believe his eyes. Yet that scene is precisely what took place one evening last week, according...
Three days later A. T. & T. celebrated its 50th anniversary by taking an hour on the radio, broadcasting a long-distance chat among Washington's Gary Travers Grayson, Boston's Karl Taylor Compton, Chicago's Rufus Cutler Dawes, Hollywood's Grace Moore, St. Louis' Jerome Herman ["Dizzy"] Dean...
...Local reporters found that on April 11 1911, a Mae West and a Frank Wallace appeared in Milwaukee in a vaudeville turn called "A Florida Enchantment." Said Mae West in Hollywood, with surprised amusement: "I never heard of the guy. And I never was in Milwaukee until four years...
...which the two most noticeable ingredients are Ruby Keeler's legs and Al Jolson's mother complex. Since neither constitutes a novelty to U. S. cinema audiences, Go Into Your Dance is not likely to add to Warner Brothers' stature as the boldest experimenters in Hollywood. But. since both are legitimate embellishments for a story about an overconfident song-&-dance man regenerated by the good influence of a partner who keeps him sober and rescues him from the clutch of a gangster's wife (Helen Morgan), Go Into Your Dance is satisfactory entertainment of its school...
...assay nearly so high as Power orThe Devil, but it was much solider stuff than last year's highly touted The Fool of Venus (TIME, March 19, 1934). English Author John Clayton, new to the U. S. will not start a critic's gold rush, but Hollywood may well lift up its eyes to his auriferous hills...