Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood octopus, through the good offices of the National Council of Teachers of English, has enfolded yet another phase of national life in its ubiquitous grasp. The Council has decided that by attending selected current movies, and by subsequently discussing them in the classroom, school-children can be taught to judge and appreciate the cinema. This opinion is new being tested experimentally on 10,000 children; later, if all goes well, 6,000,000 senior and junior high school students of the country will be allowed to exercise their critical faculties in this manner. The teachers hope for the development...
...suspicion of being a spy, had made a business of organizing bizarre junkets, soliciting junketeers through newspapers. He had been married three times. Only one bulkhead separated the dead man from his two sleeping children, Valerio, 7, and Nile, 6. His wife Aloha, young and comely, was reported in Hollywood at the time of shooting...
...Orientals invented perfumes, the Hobrews invented clothing, the Americans invented the League of Nations, but they are all indisputably French now, and much improved by the process. And so it is with the talkies. It is the essence of a French talking-picture that contains subtle refinements on the Hollywood craft which transforms the craft into something at least approaching an art. Such is the case with "Les Cinq Gentlemen Maudits" presented today and tomorrow by the French Talking Films Committee at the Geography Building...
...California engineers, but one has some doubts. The use of music throughout the film shows an imagination, an originality, and an ability to fit the music to the tempo which American films lack. The use of the camera, particularly in the opening scenes showing deck tennis, is equal to Hollywood's best, though not quite up to the standards so definitely set by the serious Germans. In chase scenes, a direct outgrowth of the Mack Sennet tradition, the director outdoes himself in making the sequences, tense with suspense, and in providing that complete ad absurdum which is the essence...
...seeking a permanent injunction against Paramount Publix Corp., together with an accounting of the profits Paramount has earned. Other suits are pending against RKO Radio Pictures R. C. A. Photophone, a subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph's Western Electric. Both Wall Street and Hollywood regard the suits as Mr. Fox's bid for a comeback in the film field. From the $100,000,000 or more that the industry has taken out of sound films, Mr. Fox expects to recover for himself...