Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Totteridge, his home village in Hertfordshire. There the 65-year-old Lord Chief Justice of England abruptly married a buxom New Zealander three inches taller and 37 years younger than himself. His bride was Miss Jean Stewart, supervisor of a school for boys at Elstree, "England's Hollywood...
Died, Lowell Sherman, 49, oldtime actor (High Stakes, The Woman Disputed), cinema villain (Way Down East), director (She Done Him Wrong, Morning Glory); of pneumonia; in Hollywood...
...since last winter's Richard of Bordeaux (TIME, Feb. 26). A great many people liked Richard of Bordeaux for its color and pageantry. They should find The O'Flynn even more to their taste. A sword-&-cloaker of the first water, nimbly directed, eminently tuneful, scenically as magnificent as Hollywood's best, The O'Flynn tells a full-blooded tale about the battles between William of Orange and James II in Ireland...
Fools Rush In (produced by Leonard Sillman). Last spring Mr. Sillman recruited a number of agreeable young folk from Hollywood, Broadway and the radio, presented them in an informal revue called New Faces. Making allowances for the cast's inexperience, critics found it on the whole pleasant entertainment, chiefly commendable for its impudence. Last summer Producer Sillman took his whole troupe to New Rochelle, settled them in a boat tied up in a harbor off Long Island Sound, put on a sequel called Fools Rush In. Last week he brought it to Broadway...
That Forsaking All Others should be offered as a self-sufficient comedy of manners is a reflection less on Hollywood than on that portion of the public which it will delight. Adapted from an unsuccessful play in which Tallulah Bankhead performed (TIME, March 13, 1933), produced with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's finest trimmings, it contains a few bits of expert comedy by Charles Butterworth. Worst shot: Dill Todd giving Mary Clay a ride on the handlebars of a borrowed bicycle, landing in a pigpen...