Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York World: "There have been quite enough of such publicity stunts upon the bench. They do not add to the respect and esteem in which courts are held. . . . Hollywood has nothing to teach a court of justice...
...Hollywood, Calif...
...TIME, hereafter I don't think I'll find time to waste on it. Your representative I suggest should be given a position out in Hollywood writing scenarios or comedies for Charlie Chaplin...
Unfortunately the story lost itself with the pearl king among a gang of pickpockets and confidence men, posing as a domestic group. Leatrice Joy, known in Hollywood as the woman who divorced Jack Gilbert before he had played in "The Merry Widow", is chief bandit in this picture. Bad as she may have been, it seemed unnecessarily brutal to make her stand by during a cinematic thunderstorm while her brother, and the rest of the cast, took pot-shots at her. But she scrambled bravely up two or three hundred feet of precipice, as advertised, and reached her destination...
...Road to Yesterday. Cecil De Mille, the prophet of midnight bathing parties and purple society dramas, has suddenly turned serious and to ill-effect. He has produced a drama in which the modern craze for psychology and complexes is the inspiration. It is a strange hybrid and smacks of Hollywood. Joseph Schildkraut is the star. His personality and appeal, so valuable in the legitimate box office, do not screen particularly impressively...