Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cameras use brighter lights, need glass partitions or windows to prevent recording the clicking of the machines, boast much more involved paraphernalia than ordinary cinemachines. Greater conveniences exist in Hollywood, yet many a cinemactor has blanched before his first "talkie" ordeal. Difficult therefore was the role of the polyglot actors in Paris. And difficult also the job of the cameramen stumbling over and struggling with old rose-covered chairs and large horseshoe table...
...Mouth. "Any mouth that is not given intelligent care is unclean. An unclean mouth is one that retains decayed teeth, deposits on the teeth, diseased roots. Bacteria are starved by cleansing the mouth and the tissues are fed by stimulating the circulation which brushing gives."-Dr. Frederick Bricker of Hollywood, Calif. Results of unclean mouths: "Anemia, appendicitis, gastritis, nephritis, cystitis, myocarditis, iritis, encephalitis, gastric ulcers and a nasty disposition...
Cinemactress Bebe Daniels flew from Hollywood to Hadley Field, New Brunswick, N. J. At every stop the local papers noted her. Finally she left her purse in the taxicab which carried her the 30 miles from Hadley Field to Manhattan. The purse contained $168 and feminine gimcracks. Whether or not Miss Daniels left the purse deliberately, the ensuing publicity was worth many, many times $168. And the taxidriver returned the money...
Married. Percy Aldridge Grainger, famed musical virtuoso; to Viola Strom, Swedish poet, painter; in the Hollywood (Calif.) Bowl, in the presence of 22,000 people who had just heard the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra play "To a Nordic Princess," composed for the occasion and directed by Bridegroom Grainger...
...name is Olga Baklanova; her address is c/o Paramount-Famous-Players-Lasky Corp., Hollywood, Calif. Compared with her, Theda Bara and the oldtime cinema-bad-women were fudge-makers. She was born in Russia and first achieved fame in the Moscow Art Theatre. Morris Guest, shrewd, brought her to the U. S. She played the nun in the road show of The Miracle. Then the movies got her. In The Street of Sin, The Man Who Laughs and her present triumph, Forgotten Faces, she demonstrates that she is, far and away, the most voluptuous cinemactress...