Word: rouben
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week was debatable. Much of what it had frozen on its 90 pages, well-cushioned with advertising at both ends, was routine pressagent photography. But the textual interpretations of current U. S. moods, fashions and philosophies as seen in the Cinema, were impressive. Critic Richard Watts Jr., Director Rouben Mamoulian, Author Jim Tully, Singer Mary Garden, Scenarist Homer Croy contributed...
...this summer with the Austrian Olympic team to keep in practice. Besides maintaining his San Francisco studio he spends several weeks every summer in Hollywood, roistering with friends in the cinema colony. They have not been entirely misspent holidays. Some time ago he completed bronze busts of his friends Rouben Mamoulian and Edward G. Robinson, and last winter Cinemactress Marion Davies persuaded William Randolph Hearst to buy a heroic Lovet-Lorski Venus...
...twitted for her marriage and the fact that it caused her to desert her two pet monkeys. Toumanova is teased about one admirer in Austin, Tex., who sends her flowers at every railroad stop, another in Montreal who besieges her with presents and long-distance telephone calls. Cinemadirector Rouben Mamoulian, a fellow Caucasian, entertained her royally each night the company spent in Los Angeles. Aboard train Dancer Lichine keeps a daily log for the company, mourns when there is no scandal, no petty jealousy to record. In their few hours of leisure the dancers rush for a cinema...
...hidebound opera company could have done justice to Porgy and Bess. Few conventionally trained singers would have been plausible in its roles. Few operatic directors could have mastered its theatre. The Guild was determined, at all costs, to make the opera live. Rouben Mamoulian, who directed the original play, was summoned from Hollywood. Negroes were assembled who knew no stuffy traditions, had true feeling for rhythm. Mamoulian's hand was particularly evident in the big mass groupings, in the way he kept the action in pace with the music. The Negroes in prayer suggested an entire down-trodden race...
...Heyward has converted his play into a libretto of natural and powerful drama, rich in action and skillful in thematic development. Rouben Mamoulian has performed a near-wonder of directorial genius aided by the sets of Sergei Soudeikine and the conducting of Alexander Smallens...