Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME erred grievously in its issue of July 13, or that of Aug. 31. The former places Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase in Cleveland until Oct. 4; while your last issue transports the picture to Hollywood. I am prone to believe that it remains in Cleveland, having attempted to interpret it while attending the 20th Anniversary Exhibition there last week...
Marcel Duchamp painted three Nudes Descending a Staircase. Two are alike save for a slight variation in tonality. Walter Conrad Arensberg owns all three, lent one to the Cleveland show in July, kept the other two at his home in Hollywood where he entertained Painter Duchamp in August...
That grand picture of Clark Gable on your front cover (TIME, Aug. 31) was a real treat. And the very revealing article on radio programs in general, and the Hollywood hours in particular, was most interesting. The fact that Louella Parsons is in cahoots with Hearst is all many people will .want to know about her. The Parsons' introductions, gushy and mealymouthed, are thorns in an otherwise enjoyable bowl of soup. How different from those of De Mille, Hughes and the informal Mr. Crosby...
...plaintive radicals were inclined to inquire last week "Odets, where is thy sting?", sophisticated cinemaddicts were less surprised at the speed with which Hollywood had apparently caused Playwright Odets to modify his creed, than at that with which Playwright Odets had obviously acquired Hollywood's technique. Directed in somewhat over-ostentatious style by Lewis Milestone, The General Died at Dawn remains a first rate melodrama, vividly penned, performed and photographed. Good shot: a reporter (Novelist John O'Hara) getting credentials from General Yang by promising to run his story on the front page...
...reason why Hollywood so rarely utilizes the obvious and profitable field of U. S. history may be the squeaks of indignation that result whenever it does so. Last week in Nashville, Tenn., Miss Fannie Walton, great-grandniece of Rachel Jackson, and the Nashville Ladies Hermitage Association made strenuous protests because The Gorgeous Hussy showed Mrs. Jackson as a pipe-smoking crone. Said Miss Walton, "I think it's a sacrilege...