Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial. The defendants were accused, in the opening speech delivered by Chief Assistant Herlands, of having operated a Manhattan restaurant racket along strictly conventional lines. Their Association charged a $250 initiation fee, $5 per month dues. Its terrorized members-in-cluding such famed restaurants as The Hollywood, Lindy's, Brass Rail, St. Regis and Jack Dempsey's-were additionally shaken down for whatever they were worth. One chain paid $17,000. Jack Dempsey got off with $285, possibly because he gave the Association prestige by posing before newscameras with two of its operators. Profits from the racket were...
...going on trying to describe America in music." The America of Ferde Grofe (pronounced Ferdy GroFay), plump onetime arranger for Paul Whiteman and for the past five years a highly successful semi-classical musician on his own, is bounded by Manhattan (Tabloid Suite), New Orleans (Mardi Gras), Hollywood (Hollywood Suite). It includes scenic wonders (Grand Canyon Suite} and clanging industry (Symphony in Steel). Last week a Carnegie Hall audience heard all these works played by a 40-piece orchestra headed by the composer in his debut as a concert conductor. The audience found Grofe's own jazzy, tuneful...
Less incendiary than its original, which caused a riot when first presented in Dublin, this version of The Plough and the Stars, spoken in brogue that is not too thick for intelligibility, offers the most illuminating glimpse of Ireland's fight for home rule thus far included in Hollywood's dossier on the subject. Good shot: Fluther's technique in a barroom fight- fantastically complicated footwork, accompanied by no blows. A Doctor's Diary (Paramount) is a savagely derisive expose of conventional medical ethics, fairly screaming the sort of hospital anecdotes which upright members...
Andre Kostelanetz is a plump, semi-bald radio orchestra leader of high talent. Last summer he achieved the kind of publicity radiofolk dote on by flying from New York to Los Angeles and back on 13 consecutive week ends. In Manhattan he conducted a radio show; in Hollywood he would ask Lily Pons to marry him. On the 13th proposal she said, "Yes." Last week they were still unwed, but Musician Kostelanetz received a reward for his persistence...
...Elliot who went to the land of squirrel-dodgers. He turned Hollywood actor, Ohio State haunted hi. He played leads in movies as College Life and College Window. To break the jinx, he turned director, so he made She Loves Me Not (in which Bing Crosby was a Princeton student) and College Scandals. By this time people every where were studying Thurber's nonsensical "telephonebooth" drawings in the New Yorker and laughing at whatever they thought the drawings meant. James Thurber has written an autobiography, My Lige and Hands and collaborated on Is Sex Necessary? Elliot, no such questions...