Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Defeated (227-to-115) a motion to consider a resolution by New York's Sirovich for an investigation of the cinema industry. The idea was howled down as "a joy ride to Hollywood to pose with movie stars." ¶Adopted a conference report on the Farm Relief bill after rejecting (283-to-109) a Senate amendment to guarantee farmers the cost of production; sent the bill to the President...
...superlatives, rumbling throughout the nation's Press for many a month, were nearing crescendo last week. Burton Holmes, famed traveloger, was hired as the national barker to make nightly 15-min. talks over an NBC network. Daytimes Lecturer Holmes, also the Fair's cinematographer, watched a miniature Hollywood spring up where, through a glass partition, fairgoers will see real cinemas filmed & recorded on a 60-ft. stage. Excerpt from one of the Holmes Fair talks...
...dress up the theme-by such touches as this or by having Jamil take himself a shade less seriously than the old sheiks used to do-help, not to modernize the picture, but to give it a certain wistful charm. The memory of Rudolph Valentino is still green in Hollywood. In The Sheik (1921) he coined a U. S. epithet and a mint of money for Paramount. The Barbarian is more than a belated imitation; like some of the songs which Jamil sings it is a plaintive serenade, begging audiences not to forget an old favorite. Most inevitable shot: Myrna...
...hole onto his drawing board. When they assumed faintly human attitudes, his guffaw of delight sent them scampering back. Then, singlehanded, with $40. he tried to make an animated cartoon cinema called Steamboat Willie. His brother lent him several hundred dollars more to photo graph it and get to Hollywood. The pic ture did not sell but it got him a studio job. Soon after he invented an Oswald the Rabbit cartoon. Sound came to the cinema and his boss scrapped Oswald and Disney. With $15,000 savings, he and his elder brother went to work on an animated cartoon...
...satisfactory life for all, not merely for the few." Most Humanists come from Unitarian. Universalist, Baptist and Congregationalist churches. In recent years 60 Unitarian ministers have embraced Humanism. Their church was dismayed but could do nothing, its own creed being far from stringent. There are Humanist groups in Manhattan. Hollywood, Berkeley, Calif., Sioux City and Minneapolis. They hope soon to form a national organization. The Minneapolis group is under the guidance of a Humanist pioneer, Rev. John Hassler Dietrich who, nominally Unitarian, began preaching Humanism 18 years ago and now has 2,000 followers. Humanists like Dietrich and Potter...