Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kitty Packard making up her mind to give her maid a bracelet. Paddy, the Next Best Thing (Fox) is very clearly Fox's notion of the next best thing to Metro's Peg 0' My Heart. It is an idyll of the Irish countryside, dripping with Hollywood blarney, Janet Gaynor's girlish charm and terms of endearment like "acushla...
Ambitious Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who appreciates direction more than most Hollywood actors, last week announced jointly with his famed father that they will play together in three British-made films under the direction of German Director Alexander Korda...
...World Heavyweight Champion Primo Carnera told Federal Referee Peter B. Olney that his client had mistaken the date of his bankruptcy hearing in Manhattan, gone off on a vacation. Referee Olney was annoyed, set a later date. Counsel explained that Carnera had to fulfill a film contract in Hollywood at that time. Stormed Referee Olney: "I don't give a damn if he has . . . he'll have to be here. He must learn that he cannot run around bumble-headed...
Sued. Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson), mammy-singer; by Walter Winchell, gossip colyumist; for $500,000, the extent to which Colyumist Winchell said he was damaged when he was struck and felled last month in Hollywood's Legion Stadium by Singer Yoelson, disturbed over reports that Winchell's new scenario (Broadway Through a Keyhole) was discreditable to his wife, Ruby Keeler (TIME, July...
...Eddie Cantor's friend, neighbor and financial mentor, persuaded him to buy a huge block of Goldman, Sachs and put it away. For the next three years Funnyman Cantor devoted his life to making the mere mention of Goldman, Sachs a sure-fire gag from Broadway to Hollywood.* But the more fun Eddie Cantor had with Goldman. Sachs the madder he got. Finally last year he sued all the partners of the sponsoring firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. for a cool $100,000,000. Other stockholders joined him in the suit, and Wall Street japesters used to annoy Goldman...