Word: hotspots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Proudly We Hail (by Joseph M. Viertel Shapiro; James R. Ullman, producer). Author Shapiro, 21, is the son of the proprietor of the French Casino, a Manhattan hotspot. Young Mr. Shapiro attended Staunton Military Academy in Virginia for four years with a brilliant record, was graduated from Harvard last June magna cum laude. So Proudly We Hail, Mr. Shapiro's first attempt at professional playwriting, lacks craftsmanship, balance and subtlety. As a propaganda piece, however, it is as brutally effective as a meat-ax, contains enough obviously first-hand documentation, along with its exaggerations, to deter hundreds of parents...
...Savannah, Ga. Jerry R. & Mamie Steele Cox, Negro servants of the late Cinemactress Marie Dressier, used the $50,000 they got from Miss Dressler's will to open a combination night club and tourist camp called Cocoanut Grove, after the famed Los Angeles hotspot...
King Solomon of Broadway (Universal). In this inoffensive little program picture, outfitted with almost continuous music and hand-me-down wisecracks, King Solomon (Edmund Lowe) operates a night club built chiefly with funds supplied by a dangerous convict. King loses his hotspot in a poker game, finds the dangerous convict unexpectedly out on parole. While attending to these difficulties, he rescues a Long Island heiress (Louise Henry) from kidnappers, loses his heart to an entertainer (Dorothy Page) and a small dog named Hamburger. The smart talk, unfortunately, is the sort that goes sour in any mouth but Mae West...