Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture as This Day and Age, DeMille's crowd scenes, his overemphatic tricks of narration, his kindergarten dialog, produce a queer effect of compelling attention without being in the least convincing. After seeing the picture audiences should be better able to credit the most recent additions to the Hollywood saga about DeMille. Back from a preview of The Sign of the Cross, in which the thing the crowd liked best was Charles Laughton's brilliant high comedy performance as Nero, Director DeMille whispered sadly to a confrere: "I have something terrible to tell poor Charlie. The audience laughed...
...leading role in preference to Evelyn Laye or Jeanette MacDonald. Aside from a contract to play the title role in British & Dominion's forthcoming Nell Gwynne and a bad habit of twitching her paws, Anna Neagle has all the requisites for a speedy trip to Hollywood...
Said Film Actress Helen Hayes to Manhattan reporters: "I hope to be able to make Hollywood pay its toll by using the 'movie name' Hollywood has given me to lure into the theatre many people who will attend only out of curiosity to see a 'movie star' in the flesh. If the George Arlisses, the Ann Hardings and the Lionel and John Barrymores should do the same thing, there would be no need of worrying about the rejuvenation of the theatre. In a year it would be completely rejuvenated...
...outdoors, snapped him plunging a knife into it. Wearied by the noise and excitement, Charitarian Heckscher wandered down to the swimming pool, suddenly collapsed on its edge. Revived, he was taken back to Manhattan to recuperate. Also ill last week lay: Film Actress Claudette Colbert, after an appendectomy, in Hollywood; William Hartman Woodin Jr., son of the Secretary of the Treasury, of a heart attack, in Tucson, Ariz.; Alberto Barreras, president of the Cuban Senate, fugitive Machadista, of abrasions suffered when an automobile belonging to New York's ex-Mayor John F. Hylan in which he was riding collided...
Author "Lewis Graham" (Lou Goldberg) tells his gaudy tale in gaudy journalese; his book is not written for the ages but for Hollywood. Knowing Denverites may amuse themselves in sorting fact from fancy; others who enjoy cinema previews or who like their scandal freshly killed and not too well-done, should relish The Great...