Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ferguson was quietly preparing to carry on without Ahern the daily and Sunday doings of Hoople & Co., which legally belong not to the cartoonist but to the syndicate. Reported inducements which led Cartoonist Ahern to abandon the pen & ink characters with whom he rose to fame & fortune: 1) In Hollywood where the Aherns live, Mrs. Ahern considers the Hearstian Los Angeles Examiner the leading paper, hence the one in which she prefers to see her husband's work; 2) a raise in salary from $35,000 to an estimated...
Sent out with a patrol to Certain Death, Colman stalls for time in the tent of an Arab chieftain who turns out to have been an Oxford classmate. In a sequence which should induce Hollywood to investigate England's famed Victorian society novelist further, the Arab remarks: "You remember our soccer games? Well, we shall play soccer, on horseback. And you, ho-ho, shall be the ball...
...cocky James Cagney and dogged Pat O'Brien is the antipathy which the sailor Balashov (G. Bushuyev) holds for the soldier Burmistrov, originating, as is always the case with Cagney v. O'Brien, over the disputed favors of a lady. Only strictly Soviet contribution to this aged Hollywood situation is the prim Communist conclusion in which it is revealed that the girl is beyond the reach of both sailor and soldier, being the heroic wife of a heroic commissar. This curious asceticism need not mar a picture which has probably not been matched for photography since The Informer...
...recitals in the afternoon and in the evening singing ballads and playing the violin. She had equipped herself for this career by studies at University of Alabama and Converse College. Later she got into enough Broadway plays to inter est M-G-M in testing her and arrived in Hollywood with two suitcases, expecting to stay a fortnight. She has never been back, either to Broadway or Talladega...
...Hollywood she gained quick distinction for a quality unique in actresses under 45 - she would play anything. She was the only good-looking girl whom Paramount found willing to stick her face through a doorway in I'm No Angel and let Mae West squirt water into it. Her performance in 'Murder at the Vanities was so nastily expert that Paramount decided she was ripe for better parts. She lives with her mother in a house at Toluca Lake in Los Angeles, works too hard to go out much, saves her money, regarded driving an automobile...