Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Englanders, the second largest crowd ever to witness a horse race in the U. S. gathered to watch a loudly ballyhooed meeting of War Admiral and Seabiscuit, two of the seven entries in the $50,000 added Massachusetts Handicap. Three thousand miles away, in brand-new Hollywood Park at Inglewood, 50,000 Californians gathered to watch a highly touted race, for a $50,000 purse, between Herbert M. Woolf's Lawrin (Kentucky Derby winner) and William du Font's Dauber (Preakness winner) to settle the "American three-year-old championship...
...strange coincidence that happens perhaps once in a generation. Seabiscuit, whose scratching canceled the famed Memorial Day $100,000 match race with War Admiral, was withdrawn a half hour before post time because of a swollen tendon, and Dauber, who had been so excited the day he arrived in Hollywood that he jumped out of his van while riding from the rail-road station, bruised a leg and broke a tooth, was also scratched a half hour before post time because of a bowed tendon...
Whether the Boston boos were louder than the Hollywood boos, no one could determine. But the disgruntled racing fans of New England, after finally settling down to comparative calm, saw one of the greatest races of the year. War Admiral, for whom Owner Samuel Riddle refused on offer of $250,000* last month, was made a 2-to-5 favorite (in spite of a muddy track and top weight of 130 lb.) after Seabiscuit was scratched. Leaving the post, the four-year-old Riddle colt was not in front as is his custom. Menow*, a three-year-old rated...
...Tahiti-Expatriates Nordhoff & Hall, who in 18 years have collaborated on eight books, it applied least in their H. M. S. Bounty trilogy, where they followed a true story, applies most in The Dark River, where they follow their imaginations, the Satevepost (where this story ran serially) and Hollywood...
...Adventure, sequel to Arctic Adventure, covers the period from 1924, when Freuchen went home to Denmark, till 1932, when he went to Alaska with a Hollywood cinema crew to film his novel Eskimo. Domesticated in Denmark, Freuchen had a hard time curbing his grizzly-bear strength. (Hugged impulsively by Freuchen, the wife of a German cinema director slumped to the floor unconscious, was taken to the hospital with two broken ribs.) In Denmark Author Freuchen went to work to make money with as much frank delight as if he were harpooning a fine catch of seals. Marrying a beautiful margarine...