Word: screening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inspect a 1,000 Ib. Exposition Cake; 2) see National Biscuit Co.'s Mickey Mouse in color-the only commercial film Walt Disney has made; 3) watch Hills Bros.' color film on the making of coffee and, whenever a cup of it is flashed on the screen, sniff aromatic coffee fumes blown at them from ventilating machines...
Next year he turned up in Hollywood with a screen story to sell about Ellis Island. It was a flop, but since then Mike has been getting $50 a week from Twentieth Century-Fox (he says $150), sometimes working as an extra for other studios (Cafe Society, Fools for Scandal). He lives thriftily with his ikons in a modest flat in Beverly Hills, drives the right people to the right places in his two-year-old Cadillac, owes only a minor tailor bill, which is disappearing by installments...
...years Hollywood has been waiting, no novelist has yet written a good book about it. Few serious novelists have even tried. A harder try than most is The Day of the Locust, by a 35-year-old Manhattan-born novelist who became a screen writer three years ago, after writing a talented satire called Miss Lonelyhearts...
...insincerity. Ginger Rugers is perfect on the dance floor; in tears she is just another girl. The real entertainment of the movie is the dancing, which makes it an attractive but not a worthy successor to past Astaire Rogers magniflickioes: The sad truth remains: even the best of screen romancers turn almost dull after marriage...
Outside of typical Grade B weakness, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" rates a passing grade as a mystery thriller. The horror of the bleak, English moors--which is almost becoming the screen character of His Majesty's isle--is well supported by the business-like Sherlock of Basil Rathbone and a very satisfying "elementary, my dear Watson" by Nigel Bruce...