Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood was the scene of another rewriting of the Declaration of Independence. Film Director Herbert Biberman, shooting a picture at San Pedro Harbor, watched a boat loading scrap iron for Japan. It occurred to him that it takes something besides bandages for China to fight scrap iron for Japan, and that the peaceful artisans of Hollywood have most to lose from the world rise of militarism and dictatorship. He talked with Actors Melvyn Douglas and Edward G. Robinson. They all talked with Clark Eichelberger, a League of Nations advocate and chairman of the Committee for Concerted Peace Efforts. After...
...Duchess of Windsor was last week reported to be eating garlic, long esteemed by Koreans as an aid to fertility. The Duchess was one of the "twelve most glamorous women in the world" invited to a tea given by Lady Mendl in Paris for Dr. H. B. Hauser, Hollywood dietitian.* At the tea, Dr. Hauser talked about food. He accused his twelve fellow guests of "sinful eating," promised them that they "could retain their glamor for a much longer time" by eating simpler foods and more vegetables. Reported Dr. Hauser: "All were serious and the Duchess of Windsor the most...
...feature-length films made in the world every year, Hollywood's annual 600 account for 73% of the playing time on the world's screens. U. S. domination of the world's cinema market gravely disturbs countries like Italy, where Mussolini has for years struggled to develop an industry which requires few raw materials besides talent and imagination. All Mussolini's efforts have been a flop. Italy has 2,700 theatres, which show 350 films a year. Through 1938, about 200 high-grade films were imported from the U. S. and about 50 low-grade films...
...leading role, that of a Mississippi showboat impresario, because he felt it did not do his talents justice. Paramount promptly suspended him from its pay roll. Miss Sullivan, 4-ft. n-in., gi-lb. Negro soprano, who in 1937 started a craze for gently swung folk tunes, made her Hollywood debut in Going Places last month. In St. Louis Blues, in addition to an excellent rendition of Loch Lomond, she touches a high in good taste for cinemusicomedy by singing the title song without screeching, stamping or keeling up the whites of her eyes...
...spectacular touch was added to yesterday's fun-making when one thousand students donned skis and acted as extras in a mass skiing scene which was filmed by Hollywood cameramen as a background for a movie about the carnival which Walter Wanger (Dartmouth '11) is making. The scenario was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Bud Schulburg, both graduates...