Word: film
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...porter carry. To Broadway he sped, for he was Howard Hughes Jr. cinema producer, and in the bag were the reels of his picture Hell's Angels on which he spent nearly three years and over $4,000,000 (TIME, June 9). He had personally conveyed the film to Manhattan for its Eastern premi?...
Last week Wolf Lamar, heavy, well-dressed, soft-voiced, continued to fulfill the common conception of his type. Cool, bland, he appeared unimpressed by charges that he had been conducting a brokerage business under the name of Murdock & Co., had failed to deliver 2,500 shares of Fox Film, could not account for the proceeds from 1,000 Grigsby-Grunow. His attitude coincided with that of his attorney who said: "The charges are a thousand miles from grand larceny." Reticent about himself, Wolf Lamar continued uttering such ultimatums as: "It is a bull market today and bear operators will...
Engaged. Jack Pickford, 33, film actor, brother of Mary Pickford Fairbanks, onetime husband (1921) of the late Olive Thomas and (1922-27) of Marilynn Miller; and Mary Mulhern. 22, onetime Ziegfeld Follies girl; at Salinas, Calif...
...things happened to George Bernard Shaw last week which he would never have predicted. He allowed himself to sign a contract to let his plays be cinematized (see p. 46). And he found himself set to music. Until pictures could talk, a Shavian film was obviously impossible. Almost as strange as a silent Shaw picture would be a Shaw opera. That, however, had not been attempted by the young German composer, Karl Friedrich Grimm, who mounted Shaw's steps last week, score in hand. He had merely written a prelude to Shaw's Caesar & Cleopatra. Shaw listened, pondered...
Married. Vivian Duncan, dancer (punched in the eye two weeks ago, TIME, Aug. 4); to Nils Asther, Swedish film star; in Reno...