Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whopper-publishers Simon & Schuster and Whopperess Lowell, replied cheerfully that she had used ''artistic selectivity." Husband Thompson Buchanan, a journalist-playwright with Hollywood affiliations, admitted that it was true that his wife had lived on the Minnie A. Caine only a short time, but protested that she had lived on many another ship and that in her book she had merged all the real ships into one literary entity, thus demonstrating her good judgment...
...still understands-the Commandments run thus: 6th: Thou shalt not commit adultery. 7th: Thou shalt not steal. Am I out-of-date? Have the Commandments been shifted? If so, by whom? when? why? To supremely subtle, sublimely succinct, superlatively sane TIME I turn for correct information. J. J. SHERLOCK Hollywood, Calif. Unless Subscriber Sherlock learned his commandments from the Vatican account of Exodus, he has forgotten his early schooling. In Bible texts today, Deuteronomy & Exodus concur: 6th: murder 7th: adultery 8th: stealing-ED. Secretary Morton
Legitimate actors, who long have repeated the slur that the only two-syllable word that Hollywood knows how to pronounce is "fil-lum," may not forget their gibing and journey toward the west. Broadway producers, however, shrugged shoulders at the talkie threat. Said Arthur Hammerstein: "The public . . . is skeptical. . . ." Said Florenz Ziegfeld: "Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world." It is obvious that, even if speaking cinemas lose their present lisp and rasp, the illusion produced by an articulate photograph of John Barrymore as Hamlet can never be as satisfying as the illusion produced by Actor Barrymore...
...dead, of which these actors are the equivalents. As it is, the soldiers remain stage soldiers, and while the incidents involving them are undoubtedly taken from history, they are not generalized enough to suggest the sound and terror of that retreat or to make war as real as Hollywood directors often made it when military pictures were the commercial vogue. Best shot: an officer waking up his tired company with a drum he has taken from the window of a deserted toy-store...
George Arliss, British actor, complete with dangling monocle, baggy tweeds, traveling tea basket, parrot ("Dink"), and the world's most monumental valet (George Jenner), entrained last week in Manhattan for Hollywood, where he will make for Warner Bros, talking pictures of his two great stage successes, The Green Goddess and Disraeli. Actor Arliss had just completed a five-month transcontinental tour as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (TIME, March...