Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wasn't it Mrs. Leslie Carter (now trying a Hollywood comeback) rather than Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske (deceased) who "transposed the scene from Britain's Civil War to that of the U. S., and swung to theatrical fame on the clapper of a cardboard bell"? . . . Does TIME deliberately make such errors to discover how many readers will detect them...
...Hollywood, Calif...
...years ago Frank Shields was usually described as a foolhardy play boy. Cannier as well as more handsome than most of his confreéres, he profited from his tennis fame by getting a Hollywood contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer last autumn, spent the winter trying to act and flattering young cinema executives by playing tennis with them. In the three major tournaments he has entered this summer, Shields has indicated that he is, if anything, a shade better than he was a year ago, when he was ranked No. 1. He hits the hardest serve and probably the fastest...
...gone." If, as newspapers politely suggested last week, it occurred to Fox executives that Will Rogers' death last fortnight made it hard to know what to do with his two unreleased, completed pictures, this statement served as a convenient hint. Forty-eight hours after the Rogers funeral in Hollywood the first of the two, Steamboat Round the Bend, made its appearance in Hollywood and Chicago, began breaking Rogers records. The second, In Old Kentucky, is expected to appear in December...
...steamboat captain, Steamboat Round the Bend in patter and pattern supplies historians with little new light on the Rogers saga. However, in addition to assuring cinemaddicts that they may still enjoy the dead actor as much as they ever did while he was alive, the picture presents a Hollywood name which may one day take its own place in cinema's sun. That, at 59, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb becomes a minor cinema star is not entirely due to the fact that the Cobb countenance closely resembles a bull frog's or that he can comically contort his vast...