Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jaffe was Gray's predecessor in the technique of laboratory contact and checking at the source. He first read bales of information in fields outside his own specialty, then spent four years visiting some 50 workshops and talking to scientists. Once at Mt. Wilson Observatory he found a Hollywood actress among a group of visitors looking through a telescope at star clusters, saw her turn away from the eyepiece, heard her snort, "aw, nerts." Not for Hollywood actresses, but for the intelligent public, he undertook in Outposts of Science to cover genetics, anthropology, physical and mental disease, glands, vitamins...
...Manhattan art critics were surprised twice in quick succession last week: 1 ) when the swank Knoedler Galleries opened their season with an exhibition of 21 flower paintings by the wife of a Hollywood producer. and 2) when the paintings turned out to be not so bad. Mrs. Bessie Lasky is the wife of Mr. Jesse Lasky. Slender, pale, serene, with curly Titian hair and a love of Chinese pajamas, she has been painting ever since the Laskys became prosperous about 15 years ago. Of her subjects she says: "I understand flowers better than anything else. To me they are human...
Accompanied by Hollywood Producer Hal Roach, Vittorio Mussolini, 21. eldest son of Il Duce, sailed on the Rex for the U. S., where he will learn U. S. movie production methods prior to starting an Italian company backed 50% by Producer Roach...
Married. Charles Correll, "Andy" of the famed radio team of "Amos 'n' Andy" ; to Dancer Alyce Mercedes McLaughlin; in the Wee Kirk o' the Heather, Hollywood. She is his second wife...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news Back to Manhattan, after working four months in Hollywood, went Author Ben Hecht to put his play To Quito and Back in rehearsal. Said Author Hecht: "When...