Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daytime, challenges Bull's underworld regency. So Bull "bumps him off," precipitating a police investigation and machine-gun play. These scenes roll off the film with a lusty realism that makes it all the more regrettable that the producers should have seen fit to resort to the invariable Hollywood alchemy of turning even the gunman's heart to gold. While in the death house, Bull is disturbed by only one loathsome thought. Suppose his sweetheart, Feathers (Evelyn Brent), and his regenerate drunkard protege, Rolls Royce (Clive Brook), had been the means of double-crossing him into the cuffs...
...interest of her own husband, who has been straying toward a passionate brunette. When the entire family has been corralled, Mother gives up the fashion shows and night clubs to return to the hearth. Thus the dumpling of Virtue is set, though not obtrusively, upon the hotcakes of Hollywood...
...Middle West be scorned, says Mr. Noyes, for it was Lincoln's home. And Detroit, though England would never guess it, lets more marine tonnage through her gates than any other port in the World. Dallas, unheard of in musical England, is familiar to Kreisler and Paderewski. Hollywood is actually a very minor adjunct to Los Angeles and "the most successful makers of temporal happiness in the world today" are by no means limited to cinema, chewing gum and flivvers...
Recent aspects of the Tully visitation have been disappointing. Classified with and by the elect as a hardboiled, outspoken cynic, Mr. Tully has been put to it to keep his crudeness spectacular and not merely crude, especially in his writings about the Hollywood notables whom he met when living with Charles Spencer Chaplin as strong-armed, sympathetic major domo. But these circus addenda to the Tully autobiography (Beggars of Life, 1924) return to a milieu wholly comfortable for Mr. Tully, where he can exercise his storytelling ability with no private emotion more complicating than a half-hearted wish to trade...
Bringing bathing beauties from Hollywood, thirsts from Kentucky, boasts from Chicago, members of Optimist International poured into Denver, Col., last week for their ninth annual convention. Denverites put on cowboy and Indian costumes, fired blank cartridges, stuck up welcoming signs...