Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...none of Rockefeller Center's murals startles the beholder quite so much as a large canvas hung this autumn in the spectacular foyer of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, entitled "Hollywood Comes to Napoleon's Aid". So lavish are the decoration and the crowds in Grauman's Chinese that ordinary theatre-goers might pass this picture by. Last week it was called sharply to public attention by 20-year-old Sherman Miller, editor & publisher of California Youth. On a white charger Napoleon rides across a wheat field that seems to be exploding under his horse...
...genius is 19-year-old Charles de Ravenne, a retired child actor and self-taught painter. Artist de Ravenne was once described by the now defunct Hollywood Highlights as "a slight youngster with the 'artiste' expressed in every characteristic. His deep, ferret-black eyes look through you in search of what it is that combines to make you appear as you do. His broad understanding smile bespeaks an appreciation of you and God and nature. His long slinky fingers were made to push a brush...
Turning, if we have not already turned, from the autumn offerings of the Hollywood general staff, we may cool our prematurely furrowed brown and indulge in one or two genuinely escapist, laughs at the presentation of "A Noun, La Liberte." Not even Lubitsch, whose sophistication is in the grand manner, has made anything half so gay. And for the intellectuals present there are implications, yes indeed...
Those who attend the University Theater this week to see Edward G. Robinson, cast as Mike, the Portagee, in "Tiger Shark," will hardly be too disappointed. Robinson is the great character actor of Hollywood at present, and the movie magnates are exploiting his good name to the full in a series of second-rate films such as "The Hatchet Man" and "Tiger Shark," But those who remember Robinson washing his hands of the messes in "Five Star Final" cannot but believe that a good actor is being wasted on bad material. Miss Zita Johann, the Quita of the picture...
...Passage (Warner). Whether or not it is true, as Jack Warner last week insisted, that Warner Brothers starts the cycles that other Hollywood companies finish, it is generally conceded that Warner's strong point lies in selecting stories. One Way Passage, by Robert Lord, is several notches above the Warner average. An escaped murderer (William Powell) meets a charming lady (Kay Francis) in a Hongkong bar. They fall in love. The next time they meet, on shipboard, the murderer is on his way to be hanged. His inamorata expects to die very shortly of a weak heart. Each learns...