Word: hollywooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president of Cities Service Co., one of the most pyramided holding companies ever devised. This year the President apparently realized the paradox, for Mr. Doherty excused himself from the job on ground of ill health. To provide publicity for the balls and themselves, a battalion of major and minor Hollywood names descended on Washington in general, Eleanor Roosevelt in particular. Mrs. Roosevelt displaying what she insists is not a modified bob but merely a close side trim (see cut), introduced some of them to her husband, obliged with photographs and luncheons. Janet Gaynor, the President observed, was as "cute...
Squirming in sequins on a Hollywood dressing-room chaise longue, Mae West made her first public statement on her notorious Adam & Eve travesty (TIME, Dec. 27; Jan. 24). Of NBC and Advertising Agents J. Walter Thompson she said: "They were no gentlemen. They let a lady down...
Spirit of Youth (Grand National). Smart Producer Lew Colder signed up Joe Louis to make a picture for $15,000, right after Louis had beaten Welsh Tommy Farr in his first defense of his world's heavyweight championship. By the time Joe reached Hollywood, Producer Golder had collected a dusky crew of professionals from downtown Los Angeles, planned an all-Negro story that would more or less parallel the Brown Bomber's shuffling clamber to fame. Taking on a wonderful waxworks-plus-minstrel-show quality from its principal player, Spirit of Youth will certainly not be duplicated...
...half years ago Edward Lynn, a grateful MacDowell Colony alumnus who now writes radio scripts in Hollywood, and Mrs. Natalie Alden Putnam, a Hollywood piano teacher, hit on the idea of holding an annual radio festival in honor of the composer. Choosing the date of MacDowell's death for their Festival...
...correct adjective for the story, acting, and directing as well as for the philosophy of "The Magnificent Obsession," the feature currently being revived at the Hub. Starring Robert Taylor, who proves conclusively that he is more than a pretty face, and Irene Dunne, who is certainly one of Hollywood's most versatile and talented actresses, this is an outstanding film. No one who missed "The Magnificent Obsession" two years ago should fail to go to the Hub this week...