Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Larry Kelley, late star of the Yale bowl, had a screen test taken in Hollywood last summer, and made such a hit that he has been approached by Lou Erwin, motion picture promoter, according to a Norwalk, Connecticut paper...
...first: visiting Hollywood in 1935, H. G. Wells was taken by friends to a Putzel show of Lautrec work. Commented the Great Outliner of the famed French artist: "Very interesting ... is he one of your local men?" P. F. W. STONE...
...Lorimer left in the Curtis Publishing Co., resigned to continue writing-with his wife -stories like After Dark, which he recently sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $25,000. He and his brother retain a small holding of Curtis stock.* Ironically, with Graeme Lorimer's eyes turned toward Hollywood, a fugitive from the film colony. Merritt Hulburd, will fill his vacancy on the Post. Merritt Hulburd, Graeme Lorimer's classmate (1923) and fraternity brother (Psi U) at the University of Pennsylvania, persuaded Samuel Goldwyn to tear up his contract, which had over three years to run, so that...
...brief shots of the actual engagement are undramatic by Hollywood and headline standards, important by history's. Limited by the necessity of keeping under cover, Mayell's camera watches bombs landing around the nearby Standard Oil boats, sees a fallen Panay seaman being hauled to a hatchway. Alley's lens catches a Japanese plane diving to attack, while squinting gunners, one trouserless (see cut), try to stem the attack with antiquated 1917 Lewis machine guns. Both cameras show the crew running to emergency posts at the start of the raid, both film the tattered, bloody sailors leaving...
...complacent spouse, Dennis King, hero of operettas, farces and romantic dramas, plays Ibsen as well as he sings Lehar and Friml. For all of Torvald's prissy traits, Actor King makes him pitiable in his final, bewildered defeat. Back from playing the ancient High Lama in Hollywood's Lost Horizon, Sam Jaffe is expertly repulsive and yet appealing as Nils Krogstad, the blackmailer who gets Nora in his clutches. Also from Hollywood, Paul Lukas acts with restraint and beauty the doomed Doctor Rank who faces his own death with tragic calm...