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...MOVIELAND-Ramon (Gomez de la Serna). Translated from the Spanish by Angel Flores-Macaulay...
...Movieland is a thinly-disguised portrait of Hollywood: a series of cinematic, lavishly colored scenes strung together on the thinnest thread of plot-a revue in words, in modern, cynical-sensual style. Hero Jacques Struk, of no stated occupation, comes to Movieland, falls in love with one of its minor but typical stars, artificial, Kleig-eyed, burntout; after her death he fades from the picture. Movieland is ruled by Director Emerson, absolute autocrat; its queen is Carlotta Bray, perennial virgin lover, who gives herself to millions on the screen, to none in the flesh, and is finally raped to death...
With such opportunities before them. Harvard men will undoubtedly rise to the occasion, and the threatened scarcity of handsome males in Movieland will be obliterated by an ingratiating influx of visages fit only to adorn the epics of the celluloid drama...
Never has the University had an opportunity to meet personally and informally so many prominent actors and actresses of the stage of today as will be tonight assembled in the State Armory. Movieland has sent William S. Hart and June Caprice as its representatives, while the vaudeville stage has contributed many others of prominence...