Word: hollywooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funny. One woman complained of the irreverence to the manager: "My God, it's disgraceful." Responsible for the revival of The Sheik in New York was President Harry Brandt of New York's Independent Theatre Owners Association, Inc., who last month announced that a quorum of Hollywood's top-ranking stars were "poison at the box office." Chortled Mr. Brandt, whose picture was doing almost as lively a trade as Mr. Jensen's just down the avenue: "It took a star like Valentino who has been dead twelve years to bring people to the box office...
...Paramount). Underworld melodrama, based on a story by Norman Krasna, directed by Fritz Lang, scored by Kurt Weill, acted by Sylvia Sidney and George Raft which, setting out to prove that Crime Does Not Pay, proves instead that the brightest names in Hollywood sometimes make its dullest pictures...
Married. Lily Pons, 33, operatic and cinematic soprano; to Andre Kostelanetz, 36, orchestra leader who two years ago flew 126,000 miles shuttling between New York, where he conducted, and Hollywood, where he courted ("I proposed to Lily every time I went out"); in a tea house on Miss Pons's estate at Silver Mine, Conn. Maid of honor: Soprano Geraldine Farrar. Guests: Sopranos Grace Moore, Gladys Swarthout...
...Most spectacular of the bunch, a near-genius creation of canniness, stupidity, bombast and lust, is the half-articulate Rumanian Jew, Grain-broker Henri Leon, whose "deposit technique" marks the perfect blend of speculation and double-crossing. When Leon has a love affair with a smart Hollywood adventuress, he incorporates the partnership as the Margaret Trust, of which he holds 49% of the shares...
...everything but money. Last week, Hollywood decided to make its crowning contribution to strike tactics: 500 invitations went out, signed by Miriam Hopkins. Gloria Stuart, Melvyn Douglas. et al., for a cocktail picket party and promenade in front of the Citizen-News...