Word: hollywooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer one excellent picture and several more worth the dissipation of a few hours. Most appealing to this column is Warner Brothers' "Four Daughters", at the Metropolitan, which stars the Lane sisters, Claude Rains, and John Garfield. As yet it marks the best of the "homey" stories with which Hollywood has been recently concerned, having more originality and better acting than the successful "Love Finds Andy Hardy." Garfield, whose first name on Broadway was Jules, is without question the most distinctive, actor to be acquired by the movies this year. On the same program is "Campus Confessions" with Betty Grable...
Lofty was the niche shared last week by Gordon and Norris Blodgett, 21 and 18, of Hollywood. Into a downtown Manhattan telegraph office clacked Gordon and Norris, with important-looking documents in hand. "Stamp our papers, quick," said Gordon. "We've set a new transcontinental roller-skating record-seven weeks, three days, four hours and two minutes." Carrying packs labeled HOLLYWOOD TO NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR ON ROLLER SKATES, they had crossed the U. S. without accepting a hitch, had worn out 192 wheels, had arrived seven months, 23 days early for the opening of the Fair...
Last week, Boxing Tsar Mike Jacobs, Theatrical Producer Lee Shubert and Jai-Alai Promoter Richard Berenson pooled their backgrounds and bank accounts to introduce the Cuban national game to Broadway. With all the éclat of a Hollywood première, Promoters Jacobs, Shubert & Berenson transformed the famed old Hippodrome into a jai-alai fronton (at a cost of $100,000), exhibited 30 of the world's top-notch jai-alaiers in a demonstration of what has been called the "fastest game in the world...
...kinds of people give Hollywood the air, but seldom cinemactors. Once in a while a Frances Farmer or Sylvia Sidney has sneaked away to Broadway, without shutting the studio door behind her. But last week Cinemactor Franchot Tone (Three Comrades, They Gave Him a Gun) loudly announced that he was through with "the long hours, the boredom and all the rest" of Hollywood, was going back to Broadway...
Because he owed her $40,000 under a separation agreement, Alfred Cleveland ("Blumey") Blumenthal, Broadway promoter, was sued in Manhattan by his wife, onetime Follies Girl Peggy Fears. Said his sworn counter-complaint: "She tried to compel me to associate with her." Mourned Peggy Fears in Hollywood: "I'm down to my last string of pearls...