Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When The Big Drive was given a test run in Chicago last month it surprised cinema tradesmen by filling the McVicker's theatre for over two weeks. Hollywood producers, unable to comprehend that the cinema can be a medium for anything except drama, will be startled if. as is likely, The Big Drive repeats its success elsewhere. Producer Rule claims to have compiled his picture as peace propaganda of much the same brand as George Palmer Putnam's grisly collection of war photographs entitled The Horror of It (TIME, March...
Divorced, Film Actor Maurice Chevalier; and Yvonne Vallee Chevalier; by a double divorce disallowing alimony to Mme Chevalier; in Paris. Onetime Parisian co-dancers, 1927 "lovebird" couple. they split on Chevalier's Hollywood-mania, Mme Chevalier's "extreme"' jealousy...
Island of Lost Souls is worth seeing particularly for the moments in which Dr. Moreau twitches quietly with pleasure as he allows himself to think what he will cause to happen to the castaway's fiancée when she goes to bed. In Hollywood's current cycle of horror pictures, this one deserves to be rated as much more atrocious than The Mummy (TIME, Jan. 16), a shade less discomforting than last year's Freaks...
...crop of nasty weeds like Calgary Eye-Opener, published by the ex-wife of Capt. Billy Fawcett. Out went innumerable local sheets like Manhattan's Metropolitan Home Journal. In came innumerable others like William H. Hanna's respectable Minneapolis Opinion, scandal-mongering Detroit Merry Go Round and Hollywood Peep Hole. A handful of woodpulps were junked, twelve published by Fiction House were suspended at one swoop. Babies: Just Babies was born. So were Beer, Metropolitan Mothers' Guide, Family Circle, Pastime, American Spectator, Brass Tacks, Common Sense . . . many, many & many another...
Problem: what is the proper deportment when one meets an enraged lion at one's elbow at a formal dance? Hollywood, the nation's mind, sets itself to solve this riddle in the current offering at the University, "Central Park," and in the process answers a thousand other equally important questions of deportment that Emily Post passed by. It takes some 17 corpses, an armored car with no end of gangsters, a lunatic, and a number of amiable and stupid minions of the law, but the answers are all there in the end. And so are Joan Blondell, the wise...