Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moving picture production but rather as the last-feeble whisper of a once glorious theatrical type. But it has George M. Cohan. The presence of this dean of Broadway's white lights cannot make a poor picture good, but it can more than satisfy the greediest publicity manager of Hollywood and furnish ample opportunity for the exercise of his pre-view talent. Little need be said of the spider web which ironically enough must develop at times into a stout hempen rope, that gives excuse for the presence of George M. Cohan. And it does not content itself with...
...year has elapsed since the first French film was shown, and thus far no steps have been taken to do the same with German films. Though less expensive to produce than Hollywood's, they are on an average, more intelligently acted and directed. "Maedchen in Uniform," "Zwei Herzen," "Kongress Tanzt," "Das Floetenkonzert," and many others show a finesse which is rarely found in American movies. If students are given the opportunity to see German films in college, they will take an interest not only in this art, but in the spoken language as well, which they will have an opportunity...
...manners, dress, speech and tastes of the average college freshman today, whether he matriculates from Public School 19 or the hedged and sheltered confines of Groton or Andover, derive from the usages of Hollywood, according to the recently asserted views of a prominent educator. "The accent of the modern freshman from high school, his tastes in music, politics and drama have been influenced by the same agencies as those of wealthier and more urban students," says Harold H. Lobdell, dean of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...imitates the screen than the screen recreates the campus, since film views of the academic life have usually been more comical than representative. But somehow it is hard to visualize the bright young men of New Haven and Cambridge assuming to any very great degree the dramatic attitudes of Hollywood, even in its more turtle-necked moments. Screen commonplaces unblushingly uttered by collegians on location would evoke inextinguishable mirth at Soldiers Field or in the precincts of Connecticut Hall, and the degree to which jealous shootings, passionate romances, Minerva motor cars and the abduction of football players figure in real...
...with the pure and wholesome. There is the depth of the ages in her eyes, today in her body and tomorrow in her spirit." As is his custom, Director De Mille took his scenarists on a yachting party to prepare the script; used a megaphone, now almost obsolete in Hollywood, to harangue his extras whom he gets not from the studio casting office but from a list...