Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer vacation from prep school, Harold Lloyd Jr., 17, got a one-picture job acting for Sam Goldwyn. His role: a non-comic high-school boy. Already working in Hollywood, John Barrymore Jr., 17, got a look at his profile in the rushes of his first movie. Marveled he: "It's amazing. I merely said some words while the camera was grinding, and it comes out acting...
...Brother!" The day is coming soon, say some Hollywood seers, when Elizabeth may get fed up with being watched. They already see signs that she is trying her wings: she is tired of her Cadillac and wants another; she wants a mink stole; in Paris last winter she went on a clothes-buying spree and overdrew her checking account; in London she snapped back at her teacher, "Wouldn't it be nice if Miss Anderson dropped right through the floor...
Unlike Founder Sill and retiring Headmaster Father William Scott Chalmers (who was California-bound to take over North Hollywood's Harvard School), lean, 41-year-old John Oliver Patterson has never been a monastic. Born in Goldfield, Nev., he was originally trained as an architect at the University of Illinois and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After two years as a practising architect the new "pater" left his drawing board for the ministry, now has 15 bustling years in Midwestern parishes behind him. In the last eight years he has swelled his Madison, Wis. congregation from...
...wowed audiences in the '20s (they played 67 weeks in the 1923-24 Ziegfeld Follies^ made their 500-odd verses household jingles) ; in Manhattan. A veteran of 60 years in show business, German-born Al Shean first turned to legitimate theater in 1912 (he also made some 20 Hollywood films), scored his biggest Broadway hit 25 years later as the Benedictine monk in Father Malachy's Miracle...
...Harry Davenport, 83, silver-haired grand old man of the stage (he took his first bow at five; had his diamond jubilee as an actor in 1946); in Los Angeles. He had played everything from the Second Gravedigger in Hamlet to Broadway runs opposite Jane Cowl, before switching to Hollywood, where he acted character roles in 113 films (Gone With the Wind, Wells Fargo...