Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...draw any conclusions regarding life in Paris, we are told, from "Coiffeur Pour Dames," by Paul Arnot and Marcel Gerbidon, now being shown at the Geography Building. As a matter of fact, the Hollywood elegance at once turned our thoughts more to this side of the Atlantic than to Paris. In this "comedie de boulevards," Mario, an ambitious, if somewhat effeminate peasant, rises from shearing lambikins of the literal sort to those of a figurative sort. One of those who is unfortunate enough to have his most fervent prayers answered, he becomes the most famous hairdresser in Paris, quite neglects...
Died. Walter Hiers, 39, fat (258 Ib.) film comedian; of bronchial pneumonia; in Hollywood, Calif...
Like Peggy Wood, svelte, sexy Tallulah Bankhead has not been seen on her native boards for some years, although her bony, faintly reptilian face has brooded through several recent Hollywood films. In Forsaking All Others, Miss Bankhead of Alabama is called upon to play the part of a young woman who is about to be married to her childhood sweetheart. Waiting nervously in an anteroom of the church, the bride-to-be exclaims that "she would really rather live in sin'' than go through with the marriage. Unexpectedly she is relieved of the necessity. Her groom jilts...
...strange fact is that Hollywood producers have never seemed to understand why a hit was a hit. After the enormous reception accorded "Broadway Melody" producers shrewdly decided to reduce their allotments to song writers and corner the market in tap dancers and kick-in-the-pants comedians. The resultant decline in business almost sufficed to wreck America's greatest infant industry. Counter to this, however, "42nd Street" has at least one good song and a brilliant orchestra to play...
Compared with the recent German films shown in Boston this cinema falls far below standard. Its good qualities are overbalanced by faults which one would more willingly attribute to Hollywood productions; the story is too complicated for a musical show, the setting is not romantic, and the little good music and the undeniably good lines cannot carry the whole burden...