Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the joke turned sour. After her microphone partner and husband, George Burns, pleaded guilty in Manhattan to two Federal indictments for smuggling (TIME, Dec. 19), with the case still pending, he flew to Hollywood to ready their radio program. Last Friday they took to the air. Gracie prattled gaily about her fictional family, but on their criminal careers and residences in jail, as well as on the troubles of her real family, she was mumchance...
...immediate past interested not only U. S. authorities but respected people in Manhattan and Hollywood. Most interested was Mrs. Elma N. Lauer, wife of New York Supreme Court Justice Edgar J. Lauer. She was indicted along with Albert Chaperau for conspiring to smuggle $1,833 worth of Paris finery into the U. S. If convicted on all counts, she might have to go to jail for eight years, pay $25,000 in fines...
Scandal. In Bernarr Macfadden's Photoplay appeared an article called Hollywood's Unmarried Husbands and Wives, purporting to "expose" the relationships of couples like Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor, Virginia Pine and George Raft, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, Paulette Goddard and Charlie Chaplin, Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland. Excerpts: "Barbara freezes homemade ice-cream for Bob from a recipe his mother gave her. . . . Before George and Virginia teamed up as a tight little twosome, George gloried in flashy, extremely-cut clothes. ... No real father could be more infatuated than George with Virginia's five-year...
...functions assumed by the Hays organization is to help studios prevent fan magazines from outdoing Hollywood itself in bad taste, scandal and pornography. Said Hays Organization Public Relations Man Tom Pettey: "The article is pretty bad. The title is even worse. ... I don't know what we'll do about it but we'll certainly take some action...
...Christmas Carol (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) leans a little too heavily on the assumption that cinemaddicts' eyes, starved by months of Hollywood's thin fare, will not be able to keep from watering over Charles Dickens' famed classic about Scrooge, Marley, Cratchits and Christmas spirit. Consequently, while A Christmas Carol is doubtless an invaluable addition to holiday lists of worth-while pictures for juvenile audiences, it cannot be recommended unreservedly to adults-unless to those who feel that the mere transposition of such a classic to the Hollywood screen constitutes an excuse for general hosannas...