Word: movieland
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...Movieland evidently didn't realize the smugness of "Four Jills in a Jeep" for here again the cinemagnates proudly pat themselves on the back for their efforts. Through the entire picture there is an endless account of how hard Hollywood has worked to set up the canteen and how wonderful it is. The self-praise reaches its peak when the usual representative of Flatbush praises the canteen with, "Dat's real democracy for ya; all dem big shots listening ta us little shots...
...cheap thrills and tries to portray an intensely psychological situation, almost a "Turn of the Screw" of its own. Such effort, if nothing else, is commendable. For it makes some effort to "legitimatize" the screen into a point where not only the Hays office but all the standards of movieland are strict enough to produce a film that holds the delicate pattern that is portrayed in "The Constant Nymph...
...Washburn, Jonathan Hale, Monte Blue, Marjorie Gateson. Dodd likes movie people, feels he has some influence on their lives just by working with them. And they think he is tops. Wrote Beverly Hills' late Editor Rob Wagner (Script): "Without doubt Father Dodd is the best-loved character in movieland. ... He has never 'preached' nor pointed the finger of superior virtue at his erring sheep...
Yesterday morning there arrived from Hollywood a pretty young lassie from Movieland, complete with the usual accoutrement of her kind--a press agent, an advance build-up, and a pair of legs. The photographers swarmed around her; the reporters avidly inquired into her love life; and her Twentieth Century Boswell added zest to the day's occupation by buzzing in and out with little extra facts and side remarks. This morning the news will go out from here to the West Coast that Harvard is mixed up in the movie racket again...
...Flick after flick comes grinding out of movieland to take a crack at Old Eli," moaned the Yale Daily News in a special article last week tracing the Bulldog's Hollywood hard luck story...