Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tremont--Hollywood Review. 8.15 o'clock...
When Erich von Stroheim first turned up in Hollywood, a polite, conceited fellow in high collars and without hair, he gained attention over other European adventurers looking for a fortune in the movies because he knew something about military etiquette. He had been to a cadet school in Austria, had served in a crack imperial regiment. After advising directors on the proper management of uniforms and parades, he began to act in pictures himself-stared through a monocle, fought duels, smoked the longest cigarets ever photographed kinetically; was billed as "The Man You Love to Hate". Not satisfied, he became...
...Karl Grune). The Germans who picturized this history of intrigue between the courts of Louis XV and mad Tsar Paul invested it with such architecture and haberdashery as even opulent Hollywood has rarely conceived. Liane Haid plays the buxom, duelling girl friend of Pompadour who is sent, dressed as a man, to learn the state secrets of St. Petersburg. Interest focusses on Fritz Kortner's interpretation of the Tsar, for it is the role with which Emil Jannings scored in The Patriot. The malevolence of Kortner's Tsar is never mitigated by the lunatic innocence which Jannings managed...
Sunlight. When U. S. washers think of Lever Bros., they may perhaps think of how 98% of Hollywood cinemactresses use Lux, or of how Lifebuoy soap removes Body Odor. Some oldtime U. S. washers may think of the oldtime question: Good morning, have you used Pear's Soap? Yet, though Lux, Lifebuoy and Pear's all are Lever Bros, soaps, they are not the Lever Bros. soap. Leading Lever Bros, product is Sunlight Soap. The main Lever works are at Port Sunlight on England's Mersey River. Almost unknown in the U. S. is Sunlight, largest selling soap...
Maurice Chevalier, cinemactor (Innocents of Paris), adored playboy of Paris music halls, returned home from the U. S. Cried he to a surging crowd of welcomers at the Gare St. Lazare: "L'Amerique, c'est swell! Nouveau York, c'est swell! L'Hollywood, c'est la plus swell...