Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moines, to accompany her. Brunette and shapely, Heloise got a job as a dancer on Captain Kay Parsons' Show Boat, making nightly excursions on the Hudson River. Within two weeks she left Captain Parsons to join the chorus of Rudy Vallee's Revels of 1935 at the Hollywood Restaurant, a torrid Broadway hot-spot notable for its bare performers, bad air and brusque service...
According to Ted Peckham, New York King of Gigolos, a Hollywood branch to provde escorts for bored spinsters and tired business girls will be opened soon. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton head the list of Social Registerites with 70 men, while Stanford and U.S.C. have only 23 between them. All men are at least five feet, ten inches tall...
...Suddenly it appears that he is to inherit a large fortune and so he travels north to stay with his Yankee relatives, a Mr. and Mrs. Layton and his grandmother, played by May Robeson. The parents stumble through an impossible role as a stupid, unimaginative couple, the kind only Hollywood can discover...
...Helene Emma Madison, 24, famed free-style swimmer, 1932 Olympic champion in the 100-and 400-metre races; and Luther C. Mclvor, builder of Wenatchee, Wash.'s Rock Island Dam; at Wenatchee. Breaker of many records before she turned professional in 1932, Swimmer Madison made a film in Hollywood (The Warrior's Husband), went home to Seattle disillusioned, sold hot dogs to pay her way through nursing school...
...Hanshue, then president of Western Air Express, found the Krick forecasts 96.1% accurate, estimated that they saved him $35,000 in one year. Currently Dr. Krick's best customers are cinema producers, who some time ago discovered that good weather for outdoor "shooting" is one thing that even Hollywood cannot buy. Dr. Krick's uncanny ability to predict, a day or so in advance, the hour when rain will start or stop, when fog will roll in or lift, is reputed to bring him fat fees from cinema coffers...