Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that human inheritance which Harvard once stood for: they seek those foundations of thought that reach down to the centre of life. Yet as they approach you, they find that the ground beneath their feet is in a flux. They come to escape from Pittsburgh and they find Hollywood. What will such men do when they begin to realize that you have no interest in the things they seek, and no interest in the seekers themselves, save to get money from them for the building of more buildings and the herding of more hordes." They will go else where...
Died. Thomas H. Ince, 44, famed cinema producer; in Hollywood, following a sudden heart attack. An actor in his early years, he scorned the cinema, took his first motion picture job only because he was penniless. He established the first studio on the west coast at Santa Monica, Calif., christened it "Inceville," there made the first cowboy pictures...
...great directors, turned his hand to the old yarn and wove it into a bright and almost novel garment. Of late, Mr. Olcott has been directing in the East (Little Old New York, The Green Goddess, The Humming Bird) and deserted to do The Only Woman in Hollywood...
...Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter is the single notable addition to the cinema gallery for the week. Addicts will recall the first Potash and Perlmutter film with considerable satisfaction. The second (derived from the play Business before Pleasure) is quite as entertaining. The four-star label on the billboards displays the names of Alexander Carr, George Sidney, Vera Gordon and Betty Blythe. When Abe takes to kicking the lion under the impression that it is a dog in disguise, there is really no point in anyone's retaining his gravity. The subtitles are even more diverting...
Everything is Big at Hollywood. It is very fitting, therefore, that the Biggest pipe organ in the world should be installed there. The largest "orchestral organ" in the world is soon to be assembled in the great Hollywood Bowl, a natural open-air amphitheatre. The largest pipe in this musical monster will be 64 feet long. This single pipe will contain as much lumber as is used in the construction of a fair-sized bungalow. It will give out the note "CCCC," three octaves deeper than the lowest "C" on a piano. This note has only 16 vibration per second...