Word: hollywooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event the prosecutors would accept my declaration of his fine & clear record in the U. S. Army-and his merely becoming involved in Hollywood's life for the first time & bad company-my husband, for whom I've gone through much to save from death begs me to state publicly-that if allowed-we will return to the scene of his errors-and donate our earnings-to the payment of all such debts-until they & our integrity are reestablished...
...wife of Leftist Aviator Harold Dahl (captured by General Franco's Moorish troops, condemned to death, and subsequently pardoned) did not read TIME'S story (Oct. 18) carefully. TIME said California wanted them both: him for three forgery charges, her for a movie contract in Hollywood. But TIME erred: Aviator Dahl is wanted on eight counts for passing rubber checks...
...Hunter, Dorothy Peterson, Zasu Pitts), follows them through 25 years of fussing against change, winds up by converting them all to the new state of things. To make the rapprochement complete, fluttery maiden Sister Zasu sings tintype torch songs in a nightclub floor show, treads lively measures with Hollywood's Sid Silvers, 52nd Street's Jack White...
...outstanding 52nd Street characters appear in 52nd Street. Scottish Crooner Ella Logan went to Hollywood last year from Leon & Eddie's, a loud, vulgar hot-spot specializing in bawdy songs. Cadaverous, fast-cracking Jack White, rowdy Roscius of 52nd Street's 18 Club, is the film's most authentic touch, although it makes meagre use of his extraordinary repertory. At home in his hurly-burly 18 Club, Comic White welcomes visiting Babbitts with orchestral fanfares and vanishing birthday cakes, dons cop's garb to unsnarl traffic jams around the comfort stations, fishes for hecklers, whom...
...Last Gangster (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) finds swart, satchel-mouthed Edward G. Robinson. Hollywood's personification of the big, bad racketeer, still doing business at the old stand...