Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King. They start reigning next month when His Majesty & friends move into the flamboyantly modernistic French Château de I'Horizon at Juan-les-Pins which he has rented from oldtime Actress Maxine Elliott. Last week Britons viewed bug-eyed in their illustrated papers pictures of this Hollywood setting, complete with ''artificial moonlight" and a practical joke swimming chute. Fun is had when a guest sits down and lets go, only to discover too late that he is sliding 30 feet down on abrasive cement...
...audience with an account of her life with MacArthur. Their romance began at the water-cooler in the city room of the Chicago Herald & Examiner. He proposed to her in the Old Mill at Coney Island. To save money they were married by his preacher-father. They traveled to Hollywood in one upper berth. There he lolled all day on a beach "getting healthy," lived on her salary. Finally...
Having invented a character named Bernard B. Brindlebug to use in a comedy. Cinemactor Groucho Marx was appalled when a real person named Bernard B. Brindlebug turned up in Hollywood, threatened suit...
...Lange, Werner Janssen and three local men- Henry Weber, Rudolph Ganz, Isaac Van Grove. Whatever ghosts of old operatic voices lingered in the Ravinia rafters, Conductor Ansermet drowned them out with Wagner, Stravinsky, Liszt, Berlioz before taking a plane to California to open the agreeable summer concerts of the Hollywood Bowl...
...whose faculties . . . are relaxed." It deplored the "havoc wrought in the souls of youth and childhood . . . the loss of innocence so often suffered in motion-picture theatres. . . ." It regretted the inability or indisposition of right-minded Catholics to become cinema producers, whose wares would be morally an improvement upon Hollywood's. After 3,500 or so words the encyclical came down "to certain practical indications...