Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allow Harvard men opportunity to try-out for positions as actors in their institution, Mr. Lyon said. "I am in favor of the project, but I believe it will prove quite expensive. Only the experiment will determine its expediency. At present there are not many college men in Hollywood who have advanced far as actors, but more are coming there every year...
Asked concerning the growth of Hollywood, Mr. Lyon said. "20 years ago, Hollywood was nothing but orange groves and fig trees. It has grown with the motion picture business. Where 20 years ago there was plowed ground and fruit trees, six and seven story Buildings now stand. Hollywood is just one large institution. Boston is a city where there are many industries, many manufacturing plants and people engaged in many trades. Hollywood is different, It centers around the moving picture business entirely. Very little that doesn't pertain to pictures, happens out there...
Dispelling the thought that Hollywood is immoral and vice-stricken, Mr. Lyon said. "If an actor in Hollywood gets inebriated every paper in the country prints it in large headlines. How ever, here in Boston, where drunks are seen every night on the street, no one seems to hear of it. The papers delight in disparaging Hollywood...
Click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click. . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click. Welker Cochran, 30, Hollywood (Calif.) realtor, had won the international 18.2 balkline billiard tournament at Washington, D. C., turning back among others Willie Hoppe, defending champion, and M. Felix Grange, of France, who had missed his vin ordinaire (TIME, March...
...Polly of Hollywood is determined to be a musical novelty. It burlesques the cinema in several moderately boisterous skits. It insists upon novelty by presenting a horse that Charlestons, by leading onto the stage a bull with a ring in his soft nose, by allowing trapeze acrobats to fly about overhead (as in the film, Variety). It does all these things forthrightly, evincing honest desire to give the public a Super-Feature Musical Comedy Satire, as advertised. The funniest thing of all is when the hero, protesting his constant affection for the heroine who is about to leave...