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Near Deadwood, S. Dak. the Black Hills Exploration Co. prepared to prospect for gold with the world's largest diamond drill. The company's president: Sid Grauman, owner of Hollywood's famed Chinese Theatre. Vice president: Cinemactor Al Jolson...
...none of Rockefeller Center's murals startles the beholder quite so much as a large canvas hung this autumn in the spectacular foyer of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, entitled "Hollywood Comes to Napoleon's Aid". So lavish are the decoration and the crowds in Grauman's Chinese that ordinary theatre-goers might pass this picture by. Last week it was called sharply to public attention by 20-year-old Sherman Miller, editor & publisher of California Youth. On a white charger Napoleon rides across a wheat field that seems to be exploding under his horse...
Directly beneath Curé Chaplin's left boot Artist Ravenne has noted the fact that his masterpiece was begun Feb. 26, 1929, finished June 8. Impresario Sid Grauman values...
Hollywood Speaks (Columbia), another exercise in self scrutiny by the film industry, begins like What Price Hollywood with an opening at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and ends with suicide and scandal. Pat O'Brien is a critic who needs an aspirin and clutches at the bottle in the hand of an extra girl (Genevieve Tobin). The bottle holds poison. He builds a new life for her, makes her a star while she blandishes a famed director. The director's wife commits suicide, blaming Genevieve Tobin in a note which a blackmailer finds. In retrieving the note...
Mentioned last week as the most likely candidate for new managing director of Roxy's was Sid Grauman, operator of Hollywood's famed Grauman's Chinese Theatre...