Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hearing the news, Singer Edith Dahl wept for joy in Cannes, tried to decide which of two Hollywood contracts she should accept. At the last instant she turned down an offer of British Long-Distance Flyer James Mollison, who was sued for divorce last week by his equidistant flying wife Amy Johnson Mollison, to fly her to Salamanca, hurried to Paris to await her husband before returning with him to Hollywood...
...explained in San Francisco last week. There his partner, Hal Roach, in the new Roach and Mussolini cinema producing firm R.A.M. (TIME, Oct. 4), was sued last week for $30,000 by Dr. Renato Senise, the Italian who originally thought up the idea and brought Roach to Rome. In Hollywood, Messrs. Roach and Mussolini had been more & more embarrassed as fewer & fewer people came to their parties and the "20-day" instruction period young Mussolini was to put in in the film capital was cut to seven after cinema trade papers carried full-page ads denouncing Vittorio Mussolini for having...
...picture will ever be made under my partnership with Mussolini, but the partnership has not been dissolved." By this time Son Vittorio was en route by sleeper-plane to Washington, obviously aware that a Fascist has about as much chance to succeed in Hollywood as a Zionist producer would enjoy in Mecca...
Culver City, seven mi. west of Los Angeles' midriff, has for two months clamored for the right to use the name Hollywood. Reasons: 1) Culver City boasts three major, several minor film studios;-2) cinemanufacture and Hollywood are synonymous. Not long ago Hollywood's Chamber of Commerce President O. K. Olesen, indignant, maneuvered through the Los Angeles City Council an ordinance defining Hollywood's boundaries, and Culver City, left definitely outside the fence, sullenly threatened to vote itself the name Hollywood anyhow...
Peace was finally concluded last week, amid typical, more-than-Oriental magnificence. In a gilded coach behind four arching white horses, guarded by 32 men in white uniforms, glistening breastplates, black thigh-boots and plumed helmets, Elaine Walker, President of Culver City's chamber of commerce, paraded down Hollywood Boulevard to Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Stepping between crowd-banks to the theatre entrance, he was greeted by Hollywood's Olesen and California's burbling Governor Frank F. Merriam, ensconced behind a large box of fresh-mixed concrete. Announcing that Culver City no longer coveted her neighbor...