Word: idolization
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...press for criticizing the House's action in haltering Mr. Roosevelt. He asked what difference there was between Prime Minister Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler, between "democracies" and "dictatorships," when ever since Munich they could all be seen serving their own selfish interests. "It is not surprising," rumbled the idol of Idaho, "that the majority of the House did not make any distinction between dictators and democracies but pursued the old system of considering alone the interests of the people of the United States...
...Time for Comedy. Old Idol Katharine Cornell and New Idol Laurence Olivier (see p. 57) in a talky but amusing comedy (TIME...
...Deer slayer (1841), Tom Brown's School Days (1857) and Alfred Batson's contemporary African Intrigue, dealing with the Agadir incident of 1911. Producer Towne will stress his stories rather than his stars, hopes for big names but will insist on actors to suit his roles. His idol at the moment is George Bernard Shaw, who, after refusing for years to let the cinema tinker with his plays, got Pygmalion made straight into a smash hit. Says Gene Towne: "It took an old guy with a beard to make bums...
...means of overcoming his liability he has a record of overt loyalty to the New Deal. Never in public has he spoken anything but praise of the great idol of the people, Franklin Roosevelt. But those who do not love the New Deal's economic experiments do not need to be told that he is more conservative than the New Deal. He thus has a foot in both camps, Roosevelt and anti-Roosevelt. If by playing old-fashioned politics with his cards close to his necktie a man can become President in 1940, Jim Farley...
Handsome Spangler Arlington Brugh, 27, got into the movies when a scout saw him in Journey's End at Pomona College, which graduated him in 1933. A matinee idol and shopgirls' delight from the beginning, he got off on the wrong foot when critics dubbed him "Beautiful" Robert Taylor. To counteract this tendency, his studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, put him in one two-fisted role after another, swaddled him in he-man publicity. One day last week, Spangler Arlington Brugh took matters into his own hands...