Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riverside Military Academy certainly qualifies as a "migratory" school with its two complete, school-owned and unencumbered plants-in Gainesville, Ga., for fall and spring and at Hollywood, Fla. for the winter. In addition, it is for the fourth consecutive year the nation's largest military preparatory school with an enrollment of more than 630 boys from 36 States and eight foreign countries...
...Surgeon Crile declared that its "sympathetic complex" made the lion the "most volatile of beasts." Her frizzy hair dyed corn-yellow, her blue eyes fading and weak, Eva Tanguay 58, famed oldtime vaudeville singer (I Don't Care!) was found hobbling around on a crutch in her bleak Hollywood cottage. "Arthritis," she explained to a newshawk. "First I became blind. . . . Now my eyes are better, and my knee is worse The doctor says I will be able to walk again. . . . Doctors always tell you that." Pursing a cramped smile, she mumbled "Please tell them that Eva Tanguay...
Piccadilly Jim (TIME, Aug. 31), was the first of Author Wodehouse's books to receive adequate screen adaptation. That the cinema has never properly utilized his work is a misfortune which may soon be corrected. Five years ago, after his first professional visit to Hollywood, Author Wodehouse expressed remorse for having "cheated" his employers (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) by accepting $104,000 for a year's work which consisted of "touching up" two stories. Last week, accompanied by Mrs. Wodehouse, two Pekinese, and a new typewriter to replace the 25-year-old one on which he had written...
...Actress Chrystal Herne. The screen version exhibits to good advantage the talents of two other ladies. Her brilliantly vitriolic portrayal as Mrs. Craig is likely to be a turning point for Actress Rosalind Russell, heretofore noted for her smooth handling of light comedy roles. The work of Dorothy Arzner, Hollywood's only woman director, is equally distinguished for giving pace without apparent effort to a picture that might, with less expert treatment, have seemed pedestrian...
Bankrupt Cinemactor Reginald Denny two months ago set up a model airplane factory in Hollywood, started producing a six-foot monoplane powered by a single-cylinder, 1/5-horsepower gasoline engine. To lure financial backing, he last week sent a Denny standard model zooming from Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal carrying eight ounces of gasoline. With news cameramen and a National Aeronautic Association official trailing in a full-sized airplane, the tiny ship soared up to 1,600 ft., flew ten miles till it crashed into the Santa Suzanna Mountains after 1 hr., 47 min. Announcing that the demonstration had brought...