Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here was news, news that all Cuban newspapers could print without fear, and they spread themselves with pictures, columns of text and descriptions of the inquest of the shark-killed boatman. Miss Harding flew for Hollywood, heavily veiled, after providing a $25-a-month pension for the boatman's widow. Only briefest mention was given another ship far more important to every Cuban, the United Fruit liner Peten carrying lean young Benjamin Sumner Welles from "New York to his post as U. S. Ambassador to Cuba...
...Story of Temple Drake (Paramount). Books as conspicuously concupiscent as William Faulkner's Sanctuary always challenge and worry Hollywood. The U. S. public will tolerate between book covers material which could never be exhibited in a theatre. Admirers of Sanctuary may therefore be disappointed in this transcription of it, but The Story of Temple. Drake-although amply punctuated by shots in which the screen goes black to conceal everything except Director Stephen Roberts' prudence-is more effective than might have been expected. It is a dingy and violent melodrama, more explicit: about macabre aspects of sex than...
...Michael Maus, in France Michel Souris, in Japan Miki Kuchi, in Denmark Mikkel Mus and in Spain Miguel Ratonocito. Last week he became Art. In Manhattan's Kennedy Galleries art critics piously eyed a collection of original Mickey Mouse cartoons from the Walt Disney Studios in Hollywood. Wrote one, "Genius . . . profoundest stuff . . . drama of the eternal ego." Another noted "the integrity of the draftsmanship, the flair for effective massing of spaces and the never failing rhythmic pattern of the drawings." From Manhattan the cartoons will go to leading U. S. colleges and museums for exhibition under the auspices...
Recording Dcpt. Warner-First National Studios North Hollywood, Calif...
...Chicagoans the game of polo has a cc.chet, a glamor that it lacks in Texas where cowboys play it wearing chaps, or in Hollywood where actors have their handicaps published in Variety, or at Meadow Brook where it is taken completely for granted. Two summers ago, Chicago had a taste of high-grade polo when an Argentine team stopped off to play. This year Chicago will have more than a taste. In honor of the World's Fair, the Open Championship will probably be played there with players from England and possibly a 25-goal team of Indians...