Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undeniably Storm at Daybreak, from a play by Sandor Hunyadi, holds together well and the skill of its actors makes its gaudy situations credible. Boleslavsky's version of the Sarajevo incident is probably Hollywood's high to date - if only for the shot of a brass band saluting the Archduke's arrival, with the cymbalist sadly exalted by the uproar of his own playing...
Proudest boast of MGM was that Greta Garbo had returned to Hollywood after all, signed a new contract, and was ready to start her next picture (Queen Christina). Also signed up for one prizefight picture was Heavyweight Challenger Max Baer. Still addicted to all-star casts, MGM was ready to release Dinner at Eight which contains almost every performer on the lot except John Barrymore's macaw. RKO promised Sinclair Lewis' Ann Viewers. It would also tackle Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham's long-neglected but deeply moving story of a cripple. Fox announced it had bought...
Storm at Daybreak (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). What would have become of Hollywood without the War is appalling to imagine. When gangsters, showgirls, Broadway colyumists and the inmates of reformatories are momentarily exhausted, there is always the Archduke Ferdinand and the affair at Sarajevo. With this as a starting point, Storm at Daybreak relates the tragic romance of a man who falls in love with his best friend's wife, played to the limit against an Austro-Serbian background and splendidly directed by Richard Boleslavsky...
...outdoor music season which was launched last fortnight (TIME, July 10), was by last week in full blast from coast to coast. The Hollywood Bowl concerts, run by a new group of sponsors called the Symphonies Under the Stars Foundation, were definitely scheduled to open with reduced admission prices and a new series of twilight concerts on Sundays. Bickering about musicians' pay had finally been settled and Los Angeles felt pleased with the prospect of 32 summer concerts...
Seeking Divorce. Winifred Coe Dix, 25, San Francisco socialite; from Richard Dix, 29, cinemactor; in Hollywood. Actor Dix's explanation: "We don't speak the same language...