Word: cinemaddicts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inquiring reporter from Mars would soon discover, the Earth's most popular entertainers are not made of flesh & blood. They are a number of two-dimensional creatures whose native haunts are the animated cartoons. As every cinemaddict knows, the thousands of hand- drawn pictures that go to make up one of these cartoons are the work of many hands. Last May, at Manhattan's Max Fleischer Studios (Popeye, Betty Boop, Screen Songs, Color Classics) 76 members of the Commercial Artists & Designers
College Holiday (Paramount) is one of those enormous, uninspired amalgamations of specialty numbers which Paramount issues periodically in the hope that sheer quantity will assure every cinemaddict of finding at least one item to his special taste. Strung out along a flimsy plot-about an eccentric dowager's scheme of turning her hotel into the scene of a eugenics experiment, and the hotel manager's counterscheme of supplying, as material for the experiment, young people capable of putting on entertainments that will attract paying guests-are a series of acts which show what has become of old-fashioned...
...From the first word in its title to the last shot on the screen, of Crawford kissing Gable, it represents a kind of bright, composite photograph which, for historians, might be labeled Mass Entertainment 1936. Important only to historians, the median 1936 cinema should please the average 1936 cinemaddict. Average shot: Franchot Tone telling Joan Crawford a knock-knock: "Machiavelli good suit...
Adequately designed to protect children from bad adults, the law contains no teeth to protect children from each other, provides no check on the degree of sophistication permissible to picayune cinemaddicts, still encourages lying. If a 5-year-old cinemaddict who has been waiting eagerly to see Jean Harlow in Suzy presents himself at a New York cinemansion box-office when that film is released next week, he may well be refused admittance unless he says he is over...
...style and the ability to make Victor McLaglen (usually cast as an awkward stooge for Edmund Lowe) reveal his formidable talents as an actor. Both were brilliantly displayed last year in The Lost Patrol. In The Informer, they become more noteworthy than ever in a picture that no sensible cinemaddict will want to miss. Good shot: Gypo giving a beggar a pound note, after making sure that he is blind...