Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considers the influence of the talkies in the far and near sections of the world. The younger set in the Fiji Islands, for example, are certain to become vitally interested in English upon beholding the magic of the silver screen and listening to the soft charm of the Hollywood talkies' silver tongue. The world flooded with English language talkies certainly presents a beautiful prospect for the Anglomaniac...
Most of these cinema taxpayers were only too anxious to meet large penalty assessments rather than criminal charges. A large migration from Hollywood to the Treasury Department may be shortly anticipated...
Cinema stars are seldom good mathematicians. Confronted with the U. S. income tax, many of them are reduced to flabby incompetence. They journey across the U. S. from Hollywood to "fix things up" personally at the Treasury Department. That grey classic building, they have found, affords a new and unusual background for "still" pictures of themselves on business bent. Last year Secretary Mellon's department had the honor of professional calls from Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Richard Barthelmess...
...Hollywood habit of turning income tax matters over to "counselors" who promise to save a taxpayer large sums provided the benefits are equitably divided, has now led to a terrifying state of affairs. Two such "counselors" for cinema folk, Miss Marjorie Berger and Edward H. Hayden, were last week indicted by a U. S. grand jury in Los Angeles on charges of preparing fraudulent tax returns for their big-salaried clients. Cinemactors and actresses quaked at the possibility of conspiracy charges...
Anthony Asquith, who was one of Oxford's most flagrant esthetes, called "Puffin," three years ago, went, last year, to Hollywood to study U. S. cinema technique. He was shown about by Douglas Fairbanks and Charles Chaplin. He is considered the best director in England today. His next film will be The Cottage at Darmoor...