Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union Square, New York City, looks like a run-down office building. For Painter Reginald Marsh it is an ivory tower, with its feet planted firmly in the Manhattan market place. Marsh, a retiring 50-year-old chunk of a man, spends whole days at his studio window on the top floor, surveys the square below through a telescope. The caved-in bums, bundled up news vendors and bumptious, pneumatic-looking shopgirls that catch his eye are swiftly translated into notebook sketches and filed away in a steel cabinet...
...Boston studio, Cartoonist Capp, a sort of Rabelais in modern dress, pretended that these enormous implications were lost on him. "My first sensation," he said, "was just the joy of having made the shmoo. Then came a feeling of annoyance. I've been subjected to all the shmoo jokes in the world, like 'there's good shmoos tonight,' and I mustn't say go-to-hell to anybody. Now I'm delighted again, having read that the shmoo has all sorts of economic meanings...
...tried to make her serve the extra six months she had "lost." Against the advice of everyone in the profession, she carried the case through three courts, at a cost of $13,000 of her own money and a year and a half of her time, during which no studio would employ her. She won the case. For going to war against a major studio (had she lost, it might have ended her career), Olivia has remained something of a Hollywood Joan...
...hard-won freedom from studio dictates, she now freelances and chooses her roles with meticulous care (she has read and rejected over 100 stories this year). She has just finished The Heiress for Paramount. Her great ambition is to play Juliet on the stage (Max Reinhardt's suggestion for her). She is frankly delighted with The Snake Pit: "Thank God that...
...critics have suggested that the picture might be harmful to the young and to the emotionally unstable, and that it should therefore be shown only to limited audiences. Psychiatrists, who have deplored most Hollywood explorations (and vulgarizations) of their specialty, disagree; they commend The Snake Pit in terms which studio pressagents could not improve on. It has even been seriously suggested that the picture be shown to borderline cases and patients. Said one Manhattan psychiatrist: "It would give them a feeling of hope for their own recovery...