Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hello, Everybody! (Paramount). Hollywood was upset last week by the financial crashing of two major producing companies, Paramount and RKO (see p. 46). A reason often advanced for the difficulties of cinema producers is radio. Hello, Everybody! is an obvious attempt to attract the radio public by exhibiting one of radio's most popular performers, huge Kate Smith, whose saccharine contralto has for two years been the mainstay of the La Palina cigar broadcast...
Quietest but most crushing squelch came from the greatest golfer of them all. In Hollywood, whither he went to make some movies after the gala opening of his Augusta National Course (TIME, Jan. 23), Robert Tyre Jones II said with the finality of an old poker player discussing wild deuces: "It might make an interesting game, but it would not be golf...
...land and at the same time making the community less attractive. Other well-known U. S. clubs which have gone bankrupt or disbanded in the last two years: Bucks County at Langhorne, Pa.; North Hills at St. Louis; Glenoaks at Farmington, Mich.; Ojai Valley near Santa Barbara, Calif.; Hollywood Country Club; Lakeville Golf & Country Club at Great Neck, L. I. with land valued at $1,500,000, which in 1931 hired Gene Sarazen as its professional at $4,000 a year...
Heretofore Hollywood has used uncommonly good judgment in casting Clara Bow. She has had scenarios written for her which called for an alternation of negligee and evening clothes in swift succession, allowing Clara to display her own particular charms in her own inimitable manner; the situation has not been clouded with acting and plot and all that. However, in "Call Her Savage," now at the University, Hollywood has gypped the customers. Not that Clara doesn't get plenty of chances to display those well-known charms; she does, much. But there is so much unadulterated tripe...
...epic in the sense that the garish extravagances of DeMille were called epics. Its effects are not won by means of pyromaniac mobs that made D. W. Griffith a god in Hollywood. Rather "Cavalcade" is a drama of family patriotism; and because the finer qualities of an Englishman are the finer qualities of an American it commands the emotions and sympathy of the American audience...