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Off to England sailed Author Herbert George Wells after five lively weeks in Hollywood. Last November wise Author Wells assured himself a warm reception in Hollywood by hailing the cinema as "a finer art than the novel, finer than the stage, finer far than the opera." He stayed with Charlie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 13, 1936 | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

When Jean Harlow first appeared in cinema, half undressed, as the sex-menace in Hell's Angels, it was clear that Holly wood would find a niche for her. The remarkable thing about her subsequent career is that, instead of becoming Hollywood's No. 1 siren, she has become its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 13, 1934 | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

Midnight Mary (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is another sample of Hollywood's current investigation of the beneficent effect of penal institutions on their adolescent inmates. Mary (Loretta Young), like Constance Bennett in Bed of Roses and Jean Harlow in Hold Your Man, is an alumna of the reformatory but she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 10, 1933 | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

All this is fundamentally as absurd as it sounds but much less vicious. Actually, the hero and heroine of Hold Your Man resemble characters from the Morte d'Arthur much more than their counterparts in life. The picture is based on the shrewd supposition that cinemaddicts derive a pleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Musicomedies of the Week | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

Adapted from a Hungarian comedy by Ladislaus Fodor, directed by James Whale, The Kiss Before the Mirror has a smooth surface, good acting and a compactly organized, if tricky, story. It lacks action and emphasis. Good shot: Dr. Held listening with growing interest to his wife's tirade at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 22, 1933 | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

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