Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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California. The Hollywood Home of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford was offered by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce...
Since Mlle. Banky now resides in Hollywood, the suit for libel was brought by her father, who almost escaped notice last week when Defendant Sari Fedak swept into court, clad in a black gown tight as snakeskin, looking perhaps half her 43 years...
...incidentally of reorganizing their industry. Up to this time English films have been a drug on the market--even the English market. The populace, accustomed to circuses with their bread, cried for American productions. The populace shall be answered, for now England is to be blessed with a Hollywood, only, as the promoters hasten to add, it will be much better than Hollywood. Its location is to be Wembley, home of the recent exposition. And to Wembley the English players will betake themselves, each ready to devote himself to art. Under an English sun when there is a sun--they...
England is right. She lacks something and it may well be a Hollywood. Perhaps she will now get proper publicity; perhaps she may rival America as the school for scandal. But she will have hard going--for in the beginning there was Hollywood, and in Hollywood there was revelry...
...America's sophisticated youth, was hardly the place from which to choose the actors. Mr. Williams smiled and said, "No, the Harvard type is just what they want. With his perfectly impervious expression of indifference and his deep resouceful eye, the Crimson undergraduate is just the man for Hollywood...