Word: hula
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fire-two difficulties that have so far blocked all attempts toward "Every Home Its Own Hollywood" Robert J. Flaherty, producer of Nanook of the North, sailed for the South Seas to film Samoan life and customs before the natives start charging a couvert-charge for their own variety of hula-hula. "Cinderella of Hollywood" is the nickname of Eleanor Boardman, who plays the leading role in Rupert Hughes' new cinema play, Souls for Sale. A year ago, according to all accounts, she was not even a "super." Her course led her from her home in Germantown, Pa., to Broadway...
...with a complement of some 20 adventurers who had heard of the money magnates make in the movies and didn't see why they shouldn't make some themselves. They incorporated themselves as the Mutual Trading Company and expect to be gone eight or ten months, filming hula-maids and cannibals and fatu-lava birds wherever they find them...
...animated person of Anna Wheaton, who works energetically and always freshly throughout the entire piece. She sings and dances equally well, whether in the syn- copation of "The Baby Blues" or the softer rhythm of "Who's Who With You"; and in the spectacular "Bamboula" dance,--"a hula from Honolulu,--by way of Spain,"--she demonstrates her versatility once again. Johnny Dooley is sure of causing a laugh each time he appears on the stage; one marvels that he can survive the nightly administration of blows and kicks, the impact of bricks and violins on his head, and the incredible...