Word: hollywooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Death, as it must to men and apes alike, came last week to a famed chimpanzee- Hollywood's Jiggs...
...story, swing music has been neglected in the graphic arts. But circulating among swing fans in Chicago last week were a number of scrupulous lithographs on the life of swing. They were the work of one George von Physter, an oldtime doghouse slapper (string bass player) who went to Hollywood as a designer, returned to the smalltime bands with an itch to make drawings of them. The results were so deep-scarred with authenticity that swing musicians in Chicago last week had them tacked over their beds. Included: a jam session in a cheap hotel room; a street-corner scene...
...snug, age-whitened Villa Cimbrone, overlooking the blue Mediterranean from its mountain perch, two people were trying not to notice that all the world was watching them. The man: snowy-haired, limelight-loving, 55-year-old Conductor Leopold Stokowski, whose American wife divorced him last December. The woman: Hollywood's No. 1 recluse, Greta Garbo...
While Mrs. Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski was in Reno last fall, Hollywood reported that her fun-loving husband was seen dancing Big Apples with Garbo at Hollywood house parties. But the report had a cooked-up whiff to it. Garbo's Conquest was ready for release, and before such events Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pressagents invariably concoct romantic blurbs. But when last December "Stoky" drank fond farewells with Greta in Manhattan on the eve of her departure for Europe, most people agreed that something more than publicity was in the air. When Conductor Stokowski himself sailed for Italy last month...
...technique of making every character seem important in neatly overlapped situations makes for speedy, clinker-built comedy. A minister's son, handsome, six-foot, 39-year-old Norman McLeod left Oxford to become a World War aviator, left Europe to become an assistant director on Christie comedies. In Hollywood he drew cartoons (as decorations for subtitles), became so proficient with his wiry, single-line caricatures that Dole Pineapple Co. pays him well for the right to use them. In directing he uses his pencil sketches to show the actors what he wants...