Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elizabethtown Court House, in 1859 John Brown's body lay in state for days before he was buried at nearby North Elba. Last week it was packed with Elizabethtown's summer visitors. Nattily dressed in Hollywood sports-spectator clothing, La Verne Moore heard New York State Supreme Court Justice O. Byron Brewster deliver a scholarly oration, then grant his application for bail ($25,000). Said Judge Brewster in part...
...musician with an occasional patron. One of these was Mrs. Alma Morgenthau Wiener, sister of the Secretary of the Treasury, whose financial arrangements with him got into the courts three years ago, when it became known that they had counted-unsuccessfully so far-on selling The Emperor Jones in Hollywood. To Composer Gruenberg and others like him, last week's Lake Placid award pointed up the fact that the radio, not only a channel but a frequent source for prize-money, may increasingly replace rich individuals as a patron of music...
...20th Century-Fox lot in Hollywood one day last week half-a-dozen men were grouped in and about a queer-looking contraption-a sort of double-decked platform in the air, held together by invisible piano wires. The whole thing was hung by cables from enormous pulleys on the stage ceiling. The lower deck, besides having springs and pads like a huge mattress, was covered with a carpet. In fact, this super-gadget was a "magic carpet," reminiscent of the one Douglas Fairbanks rode 13 years ago in the Thief of Bagdad. Eddie Cantor had used this...
Producer Samuel (''The Touch") Goldwyn, for all Hollywood's physical resources and the more elastic dimensions of the screen, has not improved on the single set Designer Geddes squeezed into the little old Belasco Theatre stage, but Playwright Lillian Hellman's (The Children's Hour) cinema version enlarges the play's design, intensifies its mood, sharpens its implications. And Producer Goldwyn was smart enough to import the Geddes-Kingsley gang en masse, the whole dirty, ruthless, gay, heroic, nasty, sadistic crew of them. In their transplanted metropolitan hell, Tommy (Billy Halop), Dippy (Huntz Hall...
...Hollywood, Mrs. Ida Hoag ran a doll hospital, manufactured and repaired dolls, had a collection containing dolls more than 50 years old. While she was curling a doll's wig, it caught fire. Hastily she threw it aside. It landed in a pile of wigs waiting to be curled. They flared up. Mrs. Hoag started rescuing her dolls, screaming, "save my babies!" Hurried to a hospital where she was treated for severe burns. Mrs. Hoag returned to the wreckage of her building, grieved over the charred arms, legs, heads, torsos of dolls. Wailed she: "Oh, my poor, poor babies...