Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, Calif...
...total of . They had gone to Tahiti to escape a dollar civilization, but they wanted $60,000 for , their last book, and got it. It costs only vell to live in Tahiti, this sum being the price of a fishing license but their movies made so much money for Hollywood that they had to keep from being exploited. They live on opposite sides of Papecte, meet once a week to discuss their writing and great wealth...
...milking a cow, flounced off the Columbia lot vowing never to return. Said she: "I don't mind milking a cow or two in the course of a day, but also to sing all day is something else again. I have another public besides that one out in Hollywood...
Picture. By last week The Plow That Broke the Plains had been privately previewed by Hollywood directors, by Interior Department and Resettlement Administration officials and by a group of Congressmen, diplomats, Supreme Court Justices and New Dealers at Washington's Hotel Mayflower. What they all saw was 2,700 ft. of handsome photography detailing a so-year history of how Man has made deserts of the Great Plains...
What made The Plow That Broke the Plains news last week, a year after it was begun and weeks after it was completed, was that the Federal Government could find no satisfactory way to distribute it to the country. According to Director Lorentz, Hollywood had been suspiciously noncooperative from the start. Most cinema producers frankly hate the New Deal and are therefore in no mood to handle the distribution of a New Deal film at any price, even if it is as effective and exciting as The Plow That Broke the Plains. Their ostensible reason for keeping this "propaganda" film...