Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to save future historians much time, trouble and travail, will TIME, "the ablest historian of our day," search out the facts and report, definitely and unequivocally if possible, on the question of who first uttered that sublime conceit, "As goes Maine, so goes Vermont." MORRIS FREEDMAN Hollywood, Calif...
...outstandingly fine movie, one as strong and vivid as the central character. Stooping to neither thrill nor pathos the picture sweeps majestically over seventeenth century Holland, silhouetting the rugged simplicity of the painter by contrasts with petty people about him. Historical accuracy and first-rate camera work show that Hollywood on the Thames is learning the American tricks...
...youngest full-fledged symphony conductor in the U. S. is chubby, red-headed James Kelley Guthrie, 22. Last week he mounted the conductor's stand and, before 5,000 people in the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium, guided the new Hollywood Grand Opera Association through its first presentation, Aïda. Except for the moment when four terrified white horses seemed ready to jump into the orchestra pit, the opera proceeded without a hitch and made San Francisco's grizzled Conductor Alfred Hertz exclaim: "He showed a mastery of musical forces quite unusual at his early...
...love with a U. S. newspaper girl named Ann Bannister, but their engagement was broken when he kissed her on the back of her neck. The trouble was, he had forgotten to take a lighted cigar from his mouth. Ann called him a soulless plug-ugly, rushed off to Hollywood, where she got a job as pressagent to a child star, vicious, golden-haired Joey Cooley. Meanwhile, back in London, when he could tear himself away from heavy meals by means of which he forgot his heartbreak, the Earl of Havershot was straightening out the affairs of an alcoholic cousin...
...uninhibited and because it goes on so tirelessly. In Laughing Gas, his plot involves a transfer of personality between the child star and the amiable, gorilla-faced Earl, with the result that the Earl romps around, paying off childhood scores, until he becomes known as the fiend of Hollywood, while the golden-haired child star takes to whiskey and soda and pays calls on cinema queens. But to speak of Wodehouse's plot is like speaking of the plot of a trapeze act, for his characters merely leap from one precarious situation to another, defying time and space...