Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Color, a moot subject in Hollywood for the last 20 years, still engages the attention of cinema engineers though most major producers are skeptical about using it except on rare occasions. From du Pont and M. I. T. engineers is soon expected an announcement that may revolutionize color pictures. Whether or not Technicolor's "three-component"' method is sufficiently perfect to make as good pictures of real people as it does of cartoons, whether it will be sufficiently appealing to make up for its expense, are two of the questions which Hollywood will be glad to have answered...
...immense bull fiddle. Good shot: Guy Kibbee's alarm when he looks in a mirror and detects a resemblance between his own face and that of a chorus girl's Pekinese, which he is holding under his arm. The Nuisance (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). No actor in Hollywood is more adept than Lee Tracy at characterizations of likable rogues. This time he is an ambulance chasing shyster, aided by a dipsomaniac doctor (Frank Morgan) and a collapsible assistant named Floppy (Charles Butterworth) whose duty it is to fall down in front of moving vehicles without getting hurt. Everything goes...
...romantic bait for the patriotic Heimwehr. More bait was dangled in the rumor that the Austrian Army will soon shuck its dull German field-grey, re-emerge in the gallant blue of the old K.u.K (Kaiserliche und Königliche) Armee, long vanished from the modern world except in Hollywood cinemas. Such a uniform, besides snubbing Germany, would remind Hungarians that they had once marched beside Austrians in that uniform, would suggest an Austro-Hungarian combine...
...talkie: an experimental version of Faust made at the Edison laboratories. His whiskers became really famed in the U. S. after Tol'able David, in which he was a Kentucky feudist with a homicidal mania. When he heard that $1,000 salaries for actors were common in Hollywood; Ernest Torrence said: "Talk like that makes a Scotchman intoxicated." He had just completed I Cover the Waterfront, started home to visit his brothers in Edinburgh when he died. Critics considered his posthumous performance one of his finest...
Lest this be taken as a slight to Lynn Fontanne, let it be said that her rival, Miss Diana Wynyard is neither better nor worse, which means that Diana is now queen of Hollywood's ball room women--there being two classes of actresses at Hollywood, ballroom ladies, and livingroom ladies. Miss Wynyard has a new coiffure and sports a new and spritely manner in her delightful acting of the part of Eleana, at once wife of a psychiatrist and mistress of an exiled Archduke. All Eleana shows is that, be it ever so sophisticated there is no place like...