Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Singapore lies the pleasant realm of the wealthy, virile, tiger-hunting Sultan of Johore who, as an Oriental potentate, is entitled to have at least one attractive British woman staying at his palace on approval. His Highness, while making a round-the-world tour in 1934, was photographed in Hollywood with Mae West, and was the guest in Washington of Mr. & Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week, the Sultan again was news because, when he recently returned to Johore from a holiday in Sumatra, he had with him and seemed intent on marrying a pert number, Lydia Cecily Hill...
...many a listener, it seemed to be news that George Gershwin was the creator of three fairly recent movie tunes, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Love Walked In-all played under the title of Hollywood Medley. Smash hit of the evening was poised, satin-voiced Negro Maxine Sullivan, singing Nice Work and Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) from memory. The rest of the vocalists, apparently under some pernicious radio influence, had not bothered to learn their songs, so that the Lyn Murray Chorus sounded ludicrous in the insinuating verses...
...Others: One in Hollywood Bowl last summer; three on the CBS and NBC chains...
When radio first went Hollywood, microphone men were glad to put any Hollywoodian on the air any time. Cinema was glad to get the publicity. But soon radio found big money in Hollywood broadcasts, and the radio-cinema honeymoon was over. Last week cinemagnates were shown emphatically that radio is through with giving them anything for the asking. Stations KFI and KECA (NBC's Los Angeles affiliates) refused to donate time for broadcasting the world premiere of Marie Antoinette from Hollywood's Carthay Circle, demanded that M-G-M pay regular commercial rates for the air time...
Died. Jack Dunn, 21, sleek, handsome British Olympic skater; of terminal pneumonia brought on by tularemia (also known as deer fly or rabbit fever); in Hollywood. Last month he got his first part-to play Rudolph Valentino in a scheduled cinema on the life of the late star, who died just as unexpectedly twelve years...