Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patrick Cardinal Hayes distributed diplomas to the 31 graduates of Good Counsel College, White Plains, N. Y. Counseled he: "I hope there is no girl here who has the thought in her mind or heart of Hollywood...
Monte Carlo Madness (UFA). Bombarded by Hollywood cinemas with for- eign dialog, European producers have tried to retaliate by making pictures in English. Trying it herein, UFA wisely chose a comedy of the type which German Director Ernst Lubitsch has made popular in the U. S., with Sari Maritza, an actress who reached Hollywood before the picture reached Manhattan, in the leading role. Monte Carlo Madness, as anyone who has ever seen a cinema about Monte Carlo should guess, is no glum study of dementia praecox. The legend from which the plot was derived concerns the captain of a destroyer...
...because she wanted a Viennese sounding one that no one would mispronounce. She considered her real one- Patricia Detering-Nathan- insufficiently romantic. Daughter of a British Army officer who owned a coal mine at Tientsin, she formed an inclination to be a cinemactress ten years ago while passing through Hollywood to England for her schooling. In 1928, when she was 18, a small part in an Austrian cinema got her a job with an English producing company. She was chosen for the lead in The Water Gypsies because Director Basil Dean thought she had the face of a fairy...
...Hollywood Bowl concerts are no longer in doubt. They will be given with elaborations to please the crowds which will gather for the Olympic Games...
John Van Alstyn Weaver attracted attention eleven years ago when he began hammering sabre-cuts of U. S. vernacular into iambic pentameter (In American). Since that time he has married Actress Peggy Wood, journeyed to Hollywood to convert some of his literary kudos into negotiable currency. His third novel, Joy Girl, is one of the fruits of his Hollywood venture...