Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eureka, Calif., presented the difficulty of finding real string instruments small enough for the players. (Wind instruments are too difficult for children.) The Sherman-Thompson Co. had some 13-inch violins made abroad, some 42-inch 'cellos, 48-inch double-basses. Karl Moldrem took his idea to Hollywood where film companies made "shorts" of his babies, publicized them so widely that there are now 600 baby orchestras in the U. S., several in Japan founded by teachers who studied under Moldrem, several in Germany. The orchestras in Eureka and Hollywood set the pattern. Karl Moldrem teaches each child individually...
...Hollywood Baby Orchestra, ablest of all, played 134 concerts in 1930, earned $130,000 for charity. Impressed by this record and by the chance baby orchestras offer for the wholesale manufacture of miniature instruments, Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. invited Karl Moldrem to bring the Hollywood orchestra to New York. When Moldrem discovered that child labor laws made it necessary to get the permission of every Governor through whose State the children would have to pass, he gave up the venture, decided it would be easier to start another group, one that he and Wurlitzer's hope will start an epidemic...
Poil de Carotte (Pathè-Natan). From European studios have come by far the most searching film studies of childhood and adolescence. While Hollywood was planning some new caprice for Jackie Cooper, Berlin was turning out such cinematic masterpieces as Maedchen in Uniform and Emil und die Detektiv (not yet released in the U. S.). This French production (spoken in French with English subtitles) and the delicate performance of young Robert Lynen measure up to the high German standard...
Goldie Gets Along (RKO-Radio) tells the familiar tale of the girl who tries to get to Hollywood by means of a beauty contest. In this case the girl is flaxen-haired Lili Damita and she enters more than one beauty contest. She enters a series of them promoted by one Muldoon (Sam Hardy) in various cities, always under a different name and always subsequent to having won over the local judges by her undeniable charm. It is then unscrupulous Muldoon's cue to offer her as the prize $1,000 or a non-existent ticket to Hollywood. Until...
Like most top newsmen Ed Hill had his turn at Hollywood. Fox Films sent him to Italy and Spain in 1926 to stage a beauty contest, bring home the winner. In Barcelona he was considering three candidates when he spied a non-contestant on the sidelines, handed her the palm. She is Maria Alba, who played opposite Douglas Fairbanks in Mr. Robinson Crusoe...