Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. James Hilton, 36, sentimental British novelist (Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr. Chips), now a Hollywood scenarist; from Alice Helen Brown Hilton, in Juarez...
...potential editorial artists, the opportunity is offered to express oneself on College topics, as well as affairs of state, national, and international interest. One editorial a night is the general rule of this competition, or its alternative, in the form of a Vagabond, a criticism of the latest Hollywood or Broadway triumph, or a review of the current best seller...
While his disappearance is the subject bf frantic New York-to-Hollywood telephone calls, Duncan luxuriates in the simple life at the Schwartzes', drinking water instead of whiskey before breakfast and sleeping in a daybed with Papa Schwartz. When Camille misapprehends the purpose of his lovemaking, he finds himself engaged to her. His extrication and the return of Camille to the husky footballer who really loves her provide further complications which, although not unfalteringly hilarious, disclose an unexpected flair for swashbuckling satire on the part of reedy Actor George Curzon, who last year played a somewhat insipid Parnell...
Hitch Your Wagon (by Bernard C. Schoenfeld; Pearson & Baruch, producers). Night of this comedy's Washington try-out opening, the theatre manager received the following telegram from a Hollywood lawyer named Henry C. Huntington: "From report it appears Hitch Your Wagon burlesques my client Barrymore as well as Elaine Barrie. I hereby warn you that I will hold you strictly responsible, if this play is produced, on behalf of my client...
Hitch Your Wagon's first scene exhibits Rex Duncan (George Curzon), a onetime stage idol who has gone somewhat to pot in Hollywood, having the jitters in a Manhattan sanatorium where his agent (Joseph Sweeney) has placed him because of alcoholic excesses. A shapely young admirer comes in bringing a gift of noodle soup. She turns out to be one Camille Schwartz (Dennie Moore), encouraged to visit Duncan by a stage-struck mother. The actor is charmed by Camille's naive allusions to her simple, bourgeois life, even more fascinated when she deprecates his film appearances but admires...