Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last Command (Emil Jannings) is the story of a cousin to the late Russian Tsar who, after the fume and flames of the revolution,, found his way to the dreary door-steppes of a Hollywood studio...
...director, whom he recognizes as the revolutionist he sent to prison so long ago, gives him a costume like the one he wore when he was the cousin of a living Tsar. Then the director sends the sad actor, once more a gaudy captain, into a mock battle. Leading Hollywood soldiers across a fabricated battlefield, the Russian nobleman forgets pretense. After relieving for a moment a similar scene in his remembrance, General Dolgorucki dies, not in pretense but in actuality, on his lips the ironic question of a disabled college athlete...
...Molnar New York is the marvel. To Chippendale it would have been Grand Rapids, to Coue it is probably Battle Creek, and to foreign movie stars it is Hollywood. Every man to his taste and profession but, in Molnar's case, "the play's the thing...
...agonized over his sufferings, lauded his quadruple murder. Then General Ortiz, Chief of Military Operations in the State of Mexico, made known the result of an investigation which he had promptly ordered when Hero Barber reached Mexico City. Said General Ortiz, contemptuously, "I always believed that only in Hollywood were such interesting stories evolved as that of Lyman Barber. . . . All that Barber actually did was to offer his guards money, which they accepted with pleasure, and then guided him to safety. . . . Such people as Barber always talk too much...
...from many odd corners of the globe; they have been accepted with positive pleasure in capitals of Europe. All this has not, obviously, made him proud. Recently, between the moments when a motion picture camera was clicking at his pleasant homely face, a stenographer trailed Funnyman Rogers around the Hollywood studios of the First National Picture Co., jotting down unostentatiously, the words which fell from his lips. These words, many of them, are now the subtitles of A Texas Steer, a cinema in which William Penn Adair Rogers (son of a Cherokee Indian) imitates the antics of a Congressman...