Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walsh, the director, should help much in making other directors pay less attention to environment in the future. I heartily recommend "The Bowery" with the exception of the last five minutes which seemed superfluous; it gives a lively picture of the slums of New York in the nineties. May Hollywood try the "Barbary Coast, next which was equally colorful...
Convinced by Mary Stevens M .D. and this production that the main problem of the professional woman is finding last names for her children, Hollywood may be expected to furnish a plethora of pictures about ladies in the newer professions. If actresses of as much talent and understanding as Irene Dunne can be found to act in them, the cycle should be more commendable than the current investigation of the farm problem...
From James M. Cain, a veteran of the days when the Mercury was indeed a sole refuge in a plague-ridden land, there come comments on Hollywood which reiterate the thesis repeated ad nauseam by this writer in these columns, viz., that movies cannot be good, but are excellent considering their number, audiences, and mode of production. For those who road and believe not, subscribe to Consumer's Research and buy not, an article by Mr. Sayre, late of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dispels many puffs which inflate the current nonsense about streamlined horseless carriages...
...series of short travelogs, is unsatisfactory, the future of Eisenstein's monster is likely to be as controversial as its past. In 1931 Paramount hired Director Eisenstein, whose Potemkin and Ten Days That Shook the World were probably the best pre-talkie Russian cinemas to go to Hollywood. He worked for three months on An American Tragedy, was then re moved because he was "too unusual." Upton Sinclair and some of his friends put up $100,000, sent Eisenstein to Mexico where he had in mind an ambitious work to interpret the history, character and appearance of the Mexican...
...hullabaloo, but when he found himself in a theatre-box with Ida. winner of a newspaper beauty contest, he lost his head with his heart. Ida was out of the same social drawer as Charlie, but she had ambitions: she really believed she was well on the road to Hollywood. While she was still in the midst of her tinsel glory Charlie went home to visit a sick aunt...