Word: hollywood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Born of Czech parents in Chicago 27 years ago, she took her first dancing lesson when she was 12. She danced in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1922, in This Year of Grace (1928). Two months of Hollywood under harddriving, gum-chewing Albertina Rasch were followed by a two-year break down. She is married to William R. Kaelin who is in the treasurer's office of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. She hates noise and night clubs, practices her dances an hour a day even when...
...schoolgirl, doing chores about the office of her older brother, Lawyer Jacob L. Holtzmann, studied law at Fordham, opened an office of her own half an hour after being admitted to the bar in 1922. She has been ready for the plaintiff ever since. She has additional offices in Hollywood and London. Most of her friends as well as her clients are stage folk. Last week's dinner to toast MGM's defeat was given by Miss Holtzmann in the apartment of her friend Mrs. Charlotte Goulding...
...stretch, and the other 40% will go around the girths of women who are set in their ways. Only cause for excitement this year was a little flurry over the molding of the breast. Many breast lines tended to be smooth and rounded, but on the Pacific Coast the Hollywood influence was still dictating "points...
Author John O'Hara, 29, is a rolling stone who has travelled from his hometown Pottsville, Pa. Journal to the Paramount studios in Hollywood. He has contributed stories to The New Yorker, Scrib- ner's, Vanity Fair. "In addition," he says, "I have jerked soda, worked on two railroads and in a steel mill, on an ocean liner and a farm . . . bummed east and west, was a day laborer. I was married once. ..." Appointment in Samarra is his first novel. A volume of his short stories, The Doctor's Son, will be published this autumn...
...able pianist. Sikorsky meanwhile attracted the attention of his fellow exile, Sergei Rachmaninoff, who helped raise $100.000 to start an aircraft factory. First U. S. built Sikorsky (S-29) carried two grand pianos from New York to Washington, flew half a million miles before being purposely crashed in a Hollywood thriller. More famed was S-35, which Sikorsky built in 1926 for Capt. Rene Fonck, French Ace of Aces, who planned a non-stop flight to Paris. Loaded with nearly 14,000 Ib. of gasoline, S-35 crashed on the takeoff, incinerated two mechanics. Newshawks saw Sikorsky weep...