Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor Walker, touring the West in the interests of the Brown Derby, visited Hollywood last week. Abruptly, unexpectedly, he took the Messrs. Schenck and Mayer, though not by name, as the text for a sermon to the cinema industry. He warned it to be nonpartisan. He reminded it that public officials such as himself had power over Sunday theatre laws, for example. He said he hoped that cinemen "are not so enslaved that they can be handed over" by two or three leaders in the industry. He warned that should the industry "dabble in politics" and choose the losing side...
Arriving by air in Los Angeles last week for a series of eight concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, Albert Coates, famed English orchestra leader, delivered a note on his methods of conducting: "I find that by wearing huge white cuffs and using long sweeping motions, I am able to exact a greater sympathy and feeling from the musicians who are playing for me. . . . Musicians can follow shirt cuffs better than an almost invisible baton...
...debutante from Montreal, Canada, where her family lost money after the World War. The pictures that made her were The Flapper, Broadway After Dark, Pleasure Mad. Later, she did The Demi-Bride, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. She is the women's tennis champion of Hollywood, swims and dives well, drives a Chrysler, likes apple pie and rice pudding, runs an ostrich plume shop in Montreal. Her husband is Irving Thai-berg, production manager of the M-G-M studios. She is now working on a film version of The Last of Mrs. Ckeyney...
...racing town of Juarez; received the Mayor of Colton, Calif., in pajamas; arrived in Los Angeles "not feeling very well." Two hours late for a luncheon, he told Los Angeles that California was going to go Democratic, that there was to be a national Smith landslide. He went to Hollywood and lay abed late...
...Dance. Hollywood has the fixed idea that, in every cinema about Russia, the handsome grand duke must inwardly love the down-trodden peasantry and must outwardly love one peasant girl. The upshot is that, inevitably, the grand duke and the girl escape across the border to avoid being butchered by the shaggy Soviets. In The Red Dance they do it in an airplane. And yet, the film is first-class entertainment. Dolores Del Rio and Charles Farrell are a capable pair, though they do not look very Russian. To Ivan Linow went the sympathy and the praise of the audience...