Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...catalogued and available in the U. S. the overwhelming majority are dull, amateurish, or technically obsolete. Of the two biggest professional producers. Eastman Kodak Co. has manufactured since 1926 some 200 silent films on historical and scientific subjects, Electrical Research Products Inc. a scanty 40 sound films. Most Hollywood producers think that the effective market is too small for profit. Of the 300,000 schoolhouses in the land, only 10,000 have 16 mm. projectors and of these less than 700 are equipped for sound. With too few films to encourage new projectors and too few projectors to encourage...
...Hollywood, Viscount Konoye's discussions with studio officials will concern modifications of Madame Butterfly (which Paramount made twice before, most lately in 1932 with Sylvia Sydney and no music) to make it more complimentary to Japan, better propaganda for the kind of occidentalization in which the Konoyes specialize. In the Konoye Butterfly, Pinkerton is a U. S. musician instead of a Navy lieutenant. After he reluctantly deserts Cho Cho San, she decides to be a singer, goes to the U. S. for her grand debut. Instead of a tragedy, the Konoye Butterfly, which the Viscount hopes to have photographed...
About 300,000 people a summer go to the Hollywood Bowl to hear a series of concerts pretentiously labeled "Symphonies Under the Stars." The current season began last fortnight, but one night last week the dither of arriving celebrities, the pop of exploding flashlights made it seem like an opening. Though Hollywood stars regularly attend the Bowl concerts, only a special occasion could have brought so many notables. Conductor Werner Janssen, son of the Manhattan restaurateur ("Janssen Wants to See You"), was playing a program by Finnish Jan Sibelius, the composer he understands best. He was playing for the first...
Listeners at Hollywood Bowl concerts last week had only to turn their eyes to a hillside 1,000 feet away to see scenes from the life and passion of Christ, enacted for the 15th consecutive season by the Pilgrimage Players whose audience in turn could dimly hear the Bowl concert. Most conspicuously attentive of the Bowl audience was Actress Ann Harding who from her seat up front never took her eyes off the lank, gloomy-looking young man who conducted all five scores from memory. When, at the end of Scenes Historiques, the audience called Janssen back nine times...
...York critics have never been so appreciative of Werner Janssen's gifts. Though he is an earnest student, a meticulous conductor with a clean, unmannered beat, they find him immature, often maladroit in sustaining long passages, often given to inexplicable changes of pace. But Hollywood had little doubt of Janssen's worth. At the end of the concert they stood and applauded for seven minutes. Conductor Otto Klemperer said he was "overwhelmed." Forty-two hostesses invited him to their parties as guest of honor...