Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Jim Tully, this kind of an Irishman himself, has spent 13 years in and around the Hollywood cinema studios. He has not become a world famous actor or director but he knows how other men have done so, shoddy rats and real geniuses alike. So Jack Jarnegan, the Hibernian superman of this story, becomes a great director and the cheap rats are drowned and smashed in torrents of abuse. It makes no polite fireside tale. The sex life of a Hibernian superman would be a thing of wonder even if he lived in Kamschatka. The Tully superman in Hollywood...
...prevent the film from presenting a vitality which few American films can boast. And "variety" was not the toast of Berlin, either. This is not intended as Europophilia. Everything that comes out of the German movie would is not good. Less than one percent of what comes out of Hollywood is creditable...
There had come a lull. Creatures crept from wreckage. They pawed dazedly over tangled debris, stumbled on dead monster fishes, sought kin-bodies. Down in the harbor the waves scarcely abated- wrenched, tore, harried, sank ships. Over in rich idle Hollywood, one lone building, the Masonic Temple, stood drunkenly. As if enraged by such impertinence, the hurricane struck again...
...October issue of Vanity Fair was published, with an article by me on my late friend, Rudolph Valentino. Of his first wife I wrote: 'She was one of the many zeros in the arithmetic of life.' Of his second wife: . 'While living with her husband in Hollywood, Miss Hudnut became so dictatorial that men associated with Valentino in the making of films did not wish to have her about...
JARNEGAN-Jim Tully-A. & C. Boni ($2). Hollywood-leaf, twig, branch and roots...