Word: warner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better off on the screen or between book covers than on the stage. An ex-husband of a leering opera singer assembles her and three of his marital successors in his Lake Tahoe hunting lodge. Actor William Harrigan, a younger, sleeker, slightly more occidental Chan than cinema's Warner Oland, gets a head start when he is added to the party, to find out what happened to a son whom the host believes the singer bore him. The femme fatale is shot almost under the inspector's eyes, but an airplane crash occurring simultaneously outside creates confusion. After...
When Captain John Ayers released the movie rights of his book to the Warner Bros. Inc., he could have had very little notion of the Hollywood system. It is hard to believe that he is satisfied. The movie, true enough, is harmless and occasionally entertaining. But the possibilities of such a work proved a little too much for those who sit in back rooms and pound out superlatives. "The Police are Liars," "The Police are Fakers," they assure us. Snappy mottos, these, emblazoned in three foot red capitals, snappy mottos to garner quarters and to ornament...
...preservation of at least a portion of his educative intent, Captain Ayers must therefore thank Captain Stone. The salvage, however, is small; the Warner Bros. have seen to that. What might have been a dull and instructive film is muddied with a useless love interest; what might have been a mediocre romance is muddied with police records. As usual, when it is caught between two fires, Hollywood has jumped into both...
...Doping" the Temple-Carnegie Tech game. Harvard Coach Eddie Casey wrote for the newspapers: "It should be an auspicious occasion for my old friend Pop Warner [Temple's new coach] . . . but do not expect him to run away with his game too easily." Carnegie, whose new Coach Howard Harpster is youngest in major football (26), scored three times on passes, once...
When President Harry Warner countermanded his order, Producer Zanuck resigned (TIME, May 1). A sharp-faced little man with a rasping voice, abnormal quantities of almost hysterical energy and a wildly eccentric sense of humor, Zanuck's reputation in Hollywood was founded on his skill in handling the realism that has been cinema's most noteworthy development since talkies. Unsympathetic to drawing room comedy, Cinderella romance, mechanical spectacle or pure pornography, Producer Zanuck likes to deal lightheartedly with episodic scenarios about lively, colorful plebeians-with James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, William Powell impersonating taxi-drivers, reporters, gamblers, shysters...