Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, Calif, he and other victims may well be burned up. It is gratifying, however, to hear of Californians getting a dose of their own medicine. Only travelers to California know of the insults with which they are greeted when they approach the borders of that State. Under the guise of quarantine regulations, motorists are stopped, their persons and cars searched and are generally treated like smugglers or undesirable aliens entering a foreign country...
More serious labor trouble confronted film actors and producers in Hollywood. Strongest labor group there is the International Alliance of Theatrical & Stage Employes, a virtual company union whose leaders work hand in glove with producers under a five-year contract forbidding strikes. Independent unions, affiliated with American Federation of Labor, have long struggled vainly for-recognition. Last week when their demands for recognition and all-union shops were turned down for the fifth successive year, 3,000 members of A. F. of L. painters', scenic artists' and make-up men's unions walked out on strike. Picket...
Miss Speare, who has spent three years in Hollywood writing for the movies, was enthusiastically received when she lectured here last year. She has chosen "Discovering Aristotle in Hollywood" as the unique title for today's talk, in which she will designate the literary principles that must be employed by the successful cinema author...
...debut of a 20-year-old, five-foot-three, 105-lb. Viennese girl with grey eyes and brown hair, using the name Luli Deste. Thunder in the City gives her opportunity to demonstrate that these qualities photograph extremely well. She is currently established in Hollywood with three Afghan hounds. Divorced wife of the late Baron Godfried Hohenberg, Luli Deste once understudied Elizabeth Bergner in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, ran a rug-weaving concern in London before she started in European cinema a year ago. Given to exotic mannerisms, she dotes on cooking such dishes as saddle of stag, pigeon...
Birthday. Cinemactress Shirley Temple, 8; in Hollywood. Celebration: a party for child patients in a Los Angeles hospital. Gifts: from her parents, a toy cooking outfit; from the public, thousands of dolls...