Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...informal, rambling musicomedy written by Donald Ogden Stewart, Going Hollywood is an effort to use radio as a decoy for cinema audiences, which succeeds much better than previous attempts built around less genuinely valuable performers than Bing Crosby...
...Going Hollywood (Metro-GoldWyn-Mayer) Marion Davies stands proxy for all U. S. radio enthusiasts who grow sickly sentimental over crooners. In a girls' school she listens to the songs of one Bill Williams (Bing Crosby) which so stir her that she pursues him to Hollywood. There she finds that radio crooners are less romantic in real life than they seem on the air. Bill Williams is acting in a cinema, backed by a solemn Ernest-P. Baker (Stuart Erwin). directed by a sardonic Mr. Conroy (Ned Sparks). In the cast is Williams' temperamental mistress Lili Yvonne (Fifi...
...head tutor was about to break bread with Dreiser as a fellow literary man; warming up to him, a little, if a head tutor could he so described, Said Mr. Dreiser, firmly and loudly: "Say, that's quite a moustache you've got there -- you ought to be in Hollywood." The students all thought Dreiser was quite a guy. --The Bystander...
...Hollywood. Tia Juana, Agua Caliente, Malibu, Colon. What glorious pictures these words conjure up in the minds of the moviegoer and the newspaper reader. Can't you just picture the exciting days and nights spent in these colorful cities. And, by the way, if you're planning to go travelling, and wish to visit these lands of your dreams, don't fail, absolutely, to read Incredible Land by that picturesque writer, Basil Woon (Liveright, $2.50). As a guide book it is excellent, but it is no less a very readable volume for an evening at home on the magic carpet...
...cinema code when it goes into effect this week. The choice of Marie Dressier and Eddie Cantor to represent the industry's performers was easy to understand. Comedian Dressier is a White House intimate of the Roosevelt family. Comedian Cantor visited Warm Springs last fortnight as representative of Hollywood's newly-formed Actors' Guild. More startling was the appointment of prim little Dr. Lowell. His job will be to superintend the efforts of the Hays organization to regulate the industry's moral flavor from within...