Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daisy Canfield Danziger Moreno, 45, California oil heiress, estranged wife of Film Actor Antonio Moreno: of injuries when her automobile ran over the edge of a cliff as her companion, one René Dussac, tried to brighten the headlights in a fog, turned them out instead; on Mulholland Highway, Hollywood...
...There are no orchestras, no spotlights, no elegant young men in cutaways. The rooms are elaborately decorated but a trifle dusty. Harried vendeuses in black elbow hip-swinging models about. Blue-jowled buyers scribble earnestly in little books. There is much confusion. One thing Paris couturiers have learned from Hollywood: to produce at each spring and autumn opening a certain number of freak gowns, shown only for their publicity value. Thus the Swiss designer Heim, opening his new shop on the Champs Elysees, showed sports dresses of natural burlap with clothesline girdles; Jane Regny had a combination evening gown...
Waiting for red-haired Cinemactress Clara Bow as she returned to Manhattan from Europe with her husband Rex Bell was "Pinkie," her pet white mouse, airmailed from Hollywood. To newshawks Miss Bow gave her formula for marital happiness: "Never go to sleep with a kick on your mind. Just lean over and say: 'I'm sorry, dear...
Until last week a music room the size of a cathedral, a pipe chamber big as a master's bedroom and an initial outlay ranging from $15,000 to $100,000 were requirements for owning a house organ. Wilmington's Pierre S. du Pont, Hollywood's Cecil B. De Mille, New York's Charles M. Schwab, 2,000 other rich Americans and a great number of cinemansions own organs. Instance of Depression's spur to invention, Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. demonstrated in Manhattan last week a new instrument, smaller, cheaper...
Forty~Second Street* (Warner). When talkies started, producers naturally tried to make musical pictures. They failed so conspicuously that it is only in the last year or so that they have had courage to try again. Forty-Second Street is an elaborate experiment which Hollywood hopes will justify a new series of musicomedies in film...