Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long while show business was tough indeed. Larry was in Chicago looking for work when he read a Variety ad: Sid Grauman was casting in Hollywood. A wire went out to Grauman: THE WORLD'S GREATEST HARMONICA PLAYER IS AT THE CHICAGO THEATER. The Wire Was signed "Louie Lipstone," the name of the head man at the Chicago Theater. Next morning, mildly conscience-stricken, Adler went around to explain. He walked in on a telephone conversation. "But I didn't send you a wire!" Lipstone was shouting. Then he saw the harmonica player. He covered the mouthpiece...
...home in 1939, no one remembered him. "I was offered a job," he recalls ruefully, "in Jack Dempsey's bar." Then an appearance with Eddy Duchin got him started again. When World War II started, he traveled the world once more, entertaining troops. After that he settled in Hollywood and into its pinko parlor politics...
Born. To Mel Tormé, 33, cream-voiced crooner, once known as "The Velvet Fog," and Arlene Tormé, 28: their first child, a son (Tormé has two sons by an earlier marriage); in Hollywood. Name: Tracy. Weight...
...political crony in scores of films, from Here Comes Mr. Jordan to The Last Hurrah, onetime Broadway playwright who hit the big time in 1925 with Is Zat So? (618 performances), later wrote plays with fat cast lists in order to provide work for actors; of chronic asthma; in Hollywood...
...Sound and the Fury. Joanne Woodward, Yul Brynner, Margaret Leighton in Hollywood's skillful, if carefully laundered treatment of a William Faulkner novel...