Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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POLLY PREFERRED-A diverting splutter of salesmanship, southern accent, money and a movie director. Opens in the Automat and closes in Hollywood. Genevieve Tobin is " Polly...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES?Hollywood and its lovely morons spitted upon a rapier of keen satire, in this history of Merton, the grocery-clerk, who dreamed of being an eight-reel-tragic-feature-film and woke to find himself the most popular low comedian in America...
...Middleton, the playwright, excited because of the difficulties between the Actor's Equity Association and the theatrical managers, and concerned for fear the poor author would fall in ruins between them: Here, too, Jesse Lynch Williams, a compiler of Why Not? and Why Marry? Clayton Hamilton, rescued from Hollywood and the motion pictures but apparently still interested in them; Robert Stead, President of the Canadian Authors' Association; William Rose Benet, planning, doubtless, to put poetry into the movies, and so on and so on. Of the speeches I heard I liked best the statement of Archbishop Hayes, read...
POLLY PREFERRED-Genevieve Tobin, a Cinderella of the movies, meets a go-getter godfather, who clothes her in splendor and wins her the right to tread the sacred soil of Hollywood in the slipper of fortune...
MERTON OP THE MOVIES-Glenn Hunter and Florence Nash, tenderfoot and a sourdough of Hollywood, soften many a dour face with a satire on "the art of motion pictures...