Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tragic putt in 1933 which, if it had gone into the cup, would have made him a national celebrity, he speedily lost prestige. In 1935 he failed even to make a living out of golf, took to selling automobiles and working as a carpenter's assistant in Hollywood to support the young wife and son, Buddy, who now travel with him to all tournaments. A year ago he borrowed enough money from his employer to enter the Western Open. He won it with a record-breaking last round of 64. According to the standards of professional golf...
Tsar Kahane's appointment coincided auspiciously last week with the conclusion of Hollywood's most troublesome recent labor difficulties when, after six weeks of picketing and bickering, the strike of painters and scenic artists (TIME, June 14) approached settlement. Pending final wage adjustments, the strikers last week returned to work...
...cinema producers is to produce cinemas. How to do so and at the same time deal with Hollywood's screen writers, actors and technicians, whose organizational activities in the course of the last month have reached a record peak, has lately been cinema producers' most pressing problem. Last week in Hollywood they found a solution: to represent them as labor arbitrator, the eight major companies included in the Producers Association (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, RKO, United Artists, Universal and Columbia) elected Benjamin Bertram Kahane, for the last year right-hand man to Columbia...
...National Cash Register's Clarence Shattuck will be among the chief trustees. As his college grows, Mr. Pepperdine plans to assign it further income from his approximately six-year-old George Pepperdine Foundation, a philanthropic corporation which holds an unspecified amount of securities and California real estate, including Hollywood's swank Ravenswood Apartments where Mae West is a tenant...
...Fire Over England" is definitely a picture worth seeing if only for the take of the photography. The Britishers can do more with a streak of sunlight and a dark room than any of Hollywood's best technicians...