Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...singing huskily since she won a Charleston contest in Texas at 16. In vaudeville she called herself "The Original John Held Jr. Girl" although she had never met or posed for that artist. Playing on Broadway in Top Speed and Girl Crazy, she got a cinema contract because Hollywood liked the way she kept repeating "Cigaret me, big boy!" in Young Man of Manhattan. She plays expert ping-pong, likes to speak pig-Latin, dislikes exhibiting her feet. We're Not Dressing (Paramount). This picture may suggest tremendous new possibilities to producers. Stranded on a desert isle, an heiress...
...have become a ghost. Recently in Hollywood when some children ran to open the door of my car they greeted me as Betty Boop. Betty is just one stroke removed from Mickey Mouse...
Stand Up and Cheer (Fox) contains a penguin dressed to resemble Jimmy Durante; a song called "I'm Laughin'"; a grand finale parade, showing Hollywood chorus boys and girls waving their arms in time to ah anthem called "We're Out of the Red." None of these is any better than it sounds...
...Congregationalist and Herald of Gospel Liberty by launching a barrage against Dr. Hugh Stewart Magill, secretary of the International Council of Religious Education (Sunday Schools of 36 denominations). Pointing to Will Hays as "that rather tawdry little elder of the Presbyterian Church who was taken into camp by Hollywood's sagacious captains," Advance said that Dr. Magill has "rushed to the aid and comfort of the discredited utility interests" by becoming president of American Federation of Utility Investors, Inc. Advance advised him to get out of one job or the other...
Directed in the vivid, light style of Rene Clair and Ernst Lubitsch, the French film is a musical romance which manages to maintain its delightful simplicity and humor, although it does show a definite Hollywood influence by including a chorus scene of the standard Busby Herkeley type. Excellent photography and really amusing sequences more than atone for the nature of the plot, which is too juvenile to justify elucidation...