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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a newsreader last week was that poor little Shirley Temple was fried to a crisp; that Madeleine Carroll was dead-not by the bullet of a rival spy, but by incineration; that nothing was left of Leo Carrillo but his accent; that Alice Brady, Virginia Bruce, Miriam Hopkins, Richard Dix. June Lang and Oliver Hardy were not much better than ingredients in a huge Thanksgiving Barbecue. In the press, pictures of these notables were accompanied by such headlines as FOREST FIRES RAZE FILM COLONY HOMES, and FLAMES WRECK HOMES OF STARS; TOWNS IN PERIL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Holocaust | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...investigating further, readers were relieved to find that no one had yet actually been burned to death. Nonetheless, the impression persisted that a gigantic holocaust was destroying most Los Angeles suburbs. It was reported that the homes of Richard Dix and Directors Sam Wood and Frank Lloyd were completely demolished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Holocaust | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Submarine Patrol (Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Boys from Syracuse (book by George Abbott; music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; produced by George Abbott) beans the niggerbaby, hits the bull's eye, rings the bell. Far & away the best musical show in many a year, it pilfers from Shakespeare the plot of his Comedy of Errors. Otherwise Shakespeare is not smart enough to stay in the combine of George Abbott, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, who set themselves a dizzy pace and cross the tape a little ahead of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Town (Les Brown; Blue-bird). New Cole Porter torch song played by a sound and rising new band of Duke University boys. The Brown band also has made the least offensive record of This Can't Be Love from The Boys From Syracuse, Richard Rodgers' most tunesome score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: December Records | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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