Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then Tibbett has behaved as modestly as any good Alger hero. He has a new wife, the former Mrs. Jennie Marston Burgard,-a home in Hollywood's fashionable Beverly Hills, a Lincoln car which he drives like mad. But Tibbett has cultivated no lofty conceits, no temperamental whimsies. He refused the private dining room which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave him in Hollywood. He still thinks, and says, that singing is "just about the best fun that the human animal can have." He will still burst into song on the street or in restaurants...
...picture, follows this simple theme, fair program entertainment results. But after Office Girl (Sally Eilers) has married Boss (Ralph Bellamy) the triangle is rearranged as a maudlin contest between Bellamy and Helen Vinson for custody of their violin-playing prodigy daughter (Karol Kay). The picture as cut for its Hollywood preview included a scene which for its power to embarrass the audience took rank with anything recently produced by the cinema-Miss Eilers pressing to her lips various portions of a layette, including baby-shoes. Her baby died soon after birth, filling her with jealousy of her husband...
...Hollywood set, a 150-lb. studio lamp fell, struck unconscious, badly bruised Mary Pickford. Husband Douglas Fairbanks quickly revived...
...University Theater in the year beginning January ninth, nineteen-hundred-and-thirty-three. If one were, in a moment of fancy, to imagine Terence and O'Neil, Goethe and Shakespeare, Sophocles and Dion Boucicault, together with half-a-hundred other master playwrights, scribbling off the output of Hollywood consumed in one year by the University Theater, it would still be hard to believe that all of the production would be absolutely tip-top. The fallacy, by which the effete critics are snared, is the idea that the cinema is solely a medium of art. Granted, it is that, but like...
Facts: Born Gerguson in 1890 in Vilna. Russia. Arrived with parents in U. S. in 1896. Longtime problem child of Manhattan charitable institutions. Bobbed up, his War years a blank, among the newly adrift Russian princes in Western Europe. Gulled Americans in Paris, Manhattan, Newport, Harvard, Hollywood (twice), St. Paul, Phoenix, variously as the late Tsar's brother, cousin, halfbrother, finally (in Mexico) the Tsar himself. Lived with and peacefully served Artist Rockwell Kent at Ausable Forks, N. Y. As drifts of bad checks massed behind him, he smelled out new green pastures. Exposed, he was always super-Romanoff...