Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First to go to work was the Princess Roussadana who had a small talent in sculpture. She went to Hollywood to make busts of cinemactors, quickly discovered that titles were more salable than statuary. With her first commissions she began importing her brothers...
...husbands, the two Hollywood Mdivanis proved an expensive luxury. With the first pinch of Depression, Pola Negri decided to get rid of her handsome Prince Serge. While Mae Murray was pondering whether to divorce her David, he and Brother Serge struck oil back of her bath house at Venice, Calif. They organized the Pacific Shore Oil Co. with Actress Murray putting up most of the cash. Stock was sold to every available member of the cinema colony. Divorced by Pola Negri, Serge's second venture was to marry Chicago Opera Singer Mary McCormic...
...company for which she "put up the money." Naming $1,000 as Brother Serge's oil income. Princess Mary charged "cruelty" in her suit for separate maintenance, got an order attaching Serge's Los Angeles bank account last week, found it empty. Joining forces, the two Hollywood Princesses inspired a stockholders meeting which ousted the Princes from their oil company directorships, elected Princess Mary's lawyer president of Pacific Shore Oil and Princess Mae's lawyer vice president...
...Sleepers East. Author Nebel cannot command Hammett's sulphurous and suspense-laden style, but he has fitted together a first-rate melodrama, whose plot is more cunningly joined than Grand Hotel's, its suspense and climax better managed. Sleepers East is headed for a brisk trip, with Hollywood one of its way-stations...
...scene and photography. In the delightful zoo where a humorous elephant squirts a trunkful of water over a handsomely malignant tiger, and serene swans float by in the twilight, the influence of Rene Clair's romantic humor is paramount. If the Gallic touch cannot long survive translation to Hollywood at any rate it is charmingly present in this temperate fantasy...