Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...missing from the de Basil line-up this year is Tamara Toumanova-one of the three ballerinas who at their debuts were so publicized for their beauty and tender years. She is now in Hollywood. In her absence Sono Osato, a Japanese-American trained under Adolph Bolm, one of the company's youngest dancers (17), is by far its most exotic looking. As a dancer, she has not yet advanced beyond petit sujet (ranking in ballet hierarchy above a corypheé, below a grand sujet). Irina Baronova, now 18, is a brilliant and imaginative artist, still addicted to lengthening...
...frequent writer of magazine thrillers, but her chief avocation is etching, which she studied under Joseph Pennell. Mrs. Angus has called herself Bernie (short for Bernadine ) since she began to write for magazines. She believed editors were more receptive to male manuscripts. Satisfied with Angel Island, pleased that Hollywood has bid $30,000 for it, Abbott is sending Mrs. Angus' only other play, Brown Sugar (formerly Home Sweet Harlem) into rehearsal this week...
...Great Garrick (Warner Bros.). As different from the cinema's typical period romance as champagne from sack, Ernest Vajda's figmentary episode in the life of 18th Century Play Actor David Garrick fits the Hollywood gag into the elaborate frame of Georgian humor. Garrick, who played Macbeth in the uniform of a Hanoverian general, might have enjoyed this modernization. He probably would have chuckled at his 1937 impersonator, debonair, English Brian Aherne, stealing scenes from noted Scene-Stealer Edward Everett Horton, but would certainly have advised some rewriting in the interest of pace...
...authors (Gene Towne, Graham Baker, Gene Fowler), borrowing the Connecticut Yankee formula, have brought it aptly up to date. Cantor is a star-struck autograph hunter on his way to Hollywood for a rubberneck vacation among the famous faces. He stumbles on the desert location of a cinema company making an episode from the Arabian Nights, becomes an extra, falls asleep in the jar reserved for Ali Baba...
When bad plays reach Broadway it is usually through the blind openhandedness of some gullible angel, but this one had the Hollywood backing of the astute Warner Brothers, was one more indication of Hollywood's renewed interest in the Broadway stage as a source, albeit an inconsistent one, of script material...