Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sense of Asiatic luxury which is "proper to every good Jew," he had built the hotel around a bath. The Christians who objected to sharing their public quarters with Jews had no such splendid bath as this-no, nor had Augustus Caesar, nor has the most pompous sybarite in Hollywood. The notables, the pressmen inspected the hotel-a steel and concrete Joseph's coat, a terraced temple of fantastic, incredible luxury...
...thing more We have not yet compared the screen version with the book, but this is merely because we have not read the book. But in any event, we heartily recommend the movie, for however different from the original--and we don't doubt that Hollywood has taken its usual liberties. "The Sea Beast" is very much well worth seeing...
...that the thing they thought dead had come to life again. And what a life. The whole freshman class arrives at Cambridge on one subway train, all playing ukuleles, all munching apples, according to the saddened reviewer of the Harvard CRIMSON. All the street and traffic signs in Hollywood must have been requisitioned to adorn the students rooms. California cactus hedges are interspersed among a few authentic Harvard scenes...
Jungle Joe now joins their company, a youthful elephant captured with 55 of his elders and betters in a drive on the Malay Peninsula. He is brought over the oceans to Madison Square Garden; shipped across the continent with a big circus to winter quarters in Hollywood, and then back again to grace the zoo of a small New England city...
...Hollywood seems firmly determined to break what Somerset Maugham declares to be our eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be amused". Comedies, such as "Let's Get Married", now at the Metropolitan, are steadily playing a more frequent part in the repertoires of the more able actors and actresses that filmdom boasts...