Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When a Hollywood producer spends a fortune making something which he considers a masterpiece, his next step is to spend another fortune advertising his achievement...
...belongs to the same club (Southern California's fashionable Midwick). Aidan Roark, rated at 8 goals, is the younger brother of Capt. 'Tat" Roark, famed British Internationalist. Born in Ireland's County Carlow, he is now a U. S. citizen, a cinema executive (Twentieth Century) in Hollywood. Forced off the team at the last moment by an attack of rheumatism was H. W. ("Rube") Williams who distinguished himself by his fine playing in the East-West games last year until he fractured his leg in the second game...
...Fugue in D Minor. Londoners, delighted, ruffled through their programs to discover that the transcription was by one Paul Klenovsky. "a young man understood to have lived in Moscow." clapped loud & long. The Klenovsky transcription was played with equal success at Liverpool, over B. B. C., and in Hollywood. Pressed for more information about the young man, Sir Henry added the following program note: "It is a pity that this young man has died. His early death robbed Russian music of a really brilliant recruit. His transcription shows the hand of a master in every bar." Last week Sir Henry...
...indeed was Albert Johnson hailed by critics. Since that time he has had as much work as he could do: Face the Music, Americana, Let 'Em Eat Cake, As Thousands Cheer, Ziegfeld Follies. He has found time to tour Sweden, visit his father in Moscow, have a fling at Hollywood, build the sets for the London production of Waltzes from Vienna. He also did the sets for Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur's new cinema, Crime Without Passion...
...willing to talk all night about himself if he likes you. He gets inspiration from listening to the music for a show, rarely builds models for his scenery. He says he is in the business only for the money. As soon as he can, he is going to Hollywood to make a fortune (he gets a maximum of $5,000 per stage show), retire, buy a boat, sail to the Cocos Islands to hunt treasure...