Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gong sounded feebly, horns droned, strings quavered mistily and the curtain went up on what was supposed to be a kiosk on the Bosporus. Composer Seymour had taken his plot from Author Harrison Griswold Dwight's Stamboul Nights. A Hollywood friend named H. C. Tracy had hacked out the libretto. But, at first, words were lost while the audience gaped in bewilderment at Frederick Kiesler's setting. The kiosk resembled the turret of a battleship topped by an old-fashioned lampshade. To suggest the garden a lighting arrangement projected on the backdrop a horizontal stem and four...
...composer had been granted leave of absence from the California State Junior College where he teaches dramatics. His curtain calls sent thrills down his spine. He has written nine operas and the only other one to be produced was a comic thing called The Farmerettes, put on by the Hollywood High School in 1933. On the great Metropolitan stage last week he was presented with a medal-from an American Opera Society in Chicago...
...have Murder Parties, Come-As-You-Were-When-the-Autobus-Called Parties, Scavenger Parties, Come-As-Somebody-Else Parties, Come-As-Your-Opposite-Parties, Come-As-the-Person-You-Like-Best Parties. Elsa Maxwell gave them, somebody else paid for them. After the crash, she returned to Manhattan via Hollywood, to cash in on her amazing reputation. Last week she had a job organizing the floor show of a Manhattan night club. Same day as the dream party, she organized a publicity stunt for the night club out of the latest fad of European socialites: levitation...
Anne Shirley gives a capable, but decidedly not inspired, performance, while Helen Westley as the Puritannical and tyrannical stepmother, violently overacts her part. Fortunately the Hollywood moguls have seen fit to give O.P. Heggie the role of the sympathetic man of the family, whose mission is to comfort and console the luck-less pair. It is O.P. Heggie's acting which raises the film asinity to the level of mediocrity...
...Brown's contract depended upon this picture or upon any other picture in which he has appeared, it would be safe to predict that he will be given his release from Hollywood and a one-way ticket to Hongkong, but the incredible youth apparently writes himself enough fan mail to make it appear that some persons consider him an actor, though God knows that we don't As usual, he strikes the unhappy medium between Professor Merriman and Baby Leroy...