Word: grauman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wisconsin-born Raymond Paige was once second fiddle in Grauman's Chinese Theater (Hollywood), became conductor, graduated to movies and radio. Conductor Paige likes sweet tunes, lush arrangements, big orchestras. Says he: "I can do things with eight flutes that you certainly couldn't with one." In 1939 he realized his dream of the biggest, flutiest orchestra ever to play popular music on the air-in 99 Men and a Girl...
...shiners, the cop one. ∙ ∙ Jack Dempsey is making personal appearances with a small-time circus. He referees side-show boxing matches, doubles occasionally as barker. ∙ ∙ After 28 years in Hollywood, 60-year-old Cecil Blount de Mille had his footprints recorded in the cement outside Grauman's Chinese Theater...
...after he announced his "final" walkout on Wife Elaine Barrie, John Barrymore pulled himself together, joined newshawks and gawkers in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Occasion: publicity gag for his forthcoming self-burlesque. The Great Profile. For years big-time filmfolk have documented Grauman's forecourt with their hand and footprints. It remained for Barrymore to lend his famous profile to the wet concrete (by way of plaster cast), oblige pressmen by pretending to put his face in it. Heckled by unsatisfied photographers, he dipped his classic nose, a timid cheek, more of the profile when...