Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hersey is particularly well informed about the profession of creating literature, notably of scenario writing. Primary sources in the art of converting novels into plays, and plays into movies he has acquired in quantity from Hollywood, and uses them to illustrate subtleties in transition which give his listeners a unique insight into the technique of dramatic production both in the cinema and on the legitimate stage. His knowledge in this department is extremely up-to-date, especially in the matter of modern stage sets...
...life is once again roseate. But Bascom, the uncurable dope-flend has tried a coup of his own; he has stolen a diamond necklace. Oliver attempts to return it and fails. Murder, pursuit by an army plane over the channel, a suicide, an other death perjury and an orthodox Hollywood ending with an unusually humorous last line by Mrs. Ropkins; it is wholesome unadulterated melodrama...
...Broadway (Broadway-Hollywood) is a feature-length production based on the frail supposition that the spectacle of a Broadway colyumist introducing pseudo-celebrities constitutes entertainment. It shows Colyumist Ed Sullivan of the New York Daily News chatting with patrons and performers at three Manhattan cafés, includes glimpses of Lupe Velez, Primo Camera, Ruth Etting, Ernst Lubitsch, et al. amiably dancing, talking, bowing. Best shot: Pugilist Maxie Rosenbloom looking bored...
Editors. Editor Tom Wallace of the Louisville Times scoffed : "We city slickers used to laugh at the patent outsides and insides. Much of the material ... is deemed necessary to good business on the theory that our readers demand fiddle-faddle about Broadway after dark, Hollywood before daylight, Paris after absinthe, and Washington from the backstairs." The other writer was the Society of Newspaper Editors' second vice president, Managing Editor Marvin H. Creager of the Milwaukee Journal. What irritated him most was not Washington from the back stairs but Washington from the official front steps: "Another member of President Roosevelt...
Most authentic shot: Ted Hackett III wearing the white towel-scarf which Hollywood juveniles use off-stage as though it were a uniform...