Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jacob Wassermann's short story about the Baron (John Gilbert) who has the face of an archangel, the soul of a devil, and a lust for the fiancee (Eva Von Berne) of his friend. In an effort to live up to his reputation as the greatest lover in Hollywood, John Gilbert makes his eyes pop out and his chest heave in a way that little furthers his ambition to be also its greatest actor...
Evenings, there was open-air cinema. Cecil B. De Mille had flown up from Hollywood before the Hoovers left Palo Alto to offer 50 of the industry's proudest new productions. The offer was accepted and the Maryland's tars came in, with the Hoovers, for special viewings of Clara Bow, Emil Jannings, Marion Davies, Janet Gaynor, et al. The film titles ranged from Three Week Ends (Paramount) to Felix in Jungle Bungle (Educational...
...their thirst, however, is real, their momentary, flaring hatreds, their gestures toward heroism, renunciation, their final acceptance of themselves, all these are real, surviving buoyantly the inadequacies of mechanics. Director Joe May, Actor Lars Hanson, maintain the fact, recently put to question by shoddy productions, that Hollywood may have bought most of the talent of the UFA company but has not yet bought all the brains. Dita Parlo 13 the girl to whom the soldiers return; she has both brains and beauty...
...Thus Hollywood, always in character, goes to the movies...
...Wind: Lillian Gish's best picture in eight years. Shadows of Fear: French adaptation of a Zola murder story. Show People: Marion Davies turns the camera on itself, herself, her Hollywood friends. While the City Sleeps: Lon Chaney as a bloodhound with bunions. White Shadows in the South Seas: Fun among the sharks. The Singing Fool: Al Jolson's larynx. Dry Martini: Ritz bar (Paris) barians...