Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Sigrid Gurie, 24, Brooklyn-born, Norwegian-bred cinemactress; and Laurence C. Spangard, 42, Hollywood physician ; she for the second time, he for the first; in Hollywood...
...scale model plan to get the City of Chicago and private contributors to put up some $5,000,000 for the reconstruction. Law forbids them to erect it on the grounds of the Capitol or the Library of Congress, and, thanks to an amendment by Congressman John Costello of Hollywood, they will not be able to set it down in the Tidal Basin, or in the reflecting pool before Lincoln's austere memorial. But there are lots of other conspicuous places in Washington...
...Hollywood, between takes, Cinemactress Greta Garbo, the Swedish nonpareil, is wont to sit aloof and brooding. Metamorphosed by her light-comedy role in her picture-in-progress (Ninotschka), she joined the offset chatter, sometimes smiled right out loud...
...Hollywood went Michael O'Daniel, 19, son of Texas' Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, to make his fortune with his face. After a screen test he was offered a contract by Paramount, went home in high feather to get his pappy's consent...
...build up whaling fleets the U. S., Germany, Japan and others had to hire Norwegians. Aristocrats of whaling are the 260 Norwegian harpooners, who earn $6,000 to $15,000 apiece in the five-month season, live like Hollywood stars in Norway's whaling capital, Sandefjord. For the business depends on their art, finding whales and killing them. Two years ago Germany (world's biggest whale-oil user) signed Harpooner Lars Andersen, Norway's ace gunner, to a three-year contract at a reputed salary of around $125,000 a season...