Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, James Roosevelt again denied that his new vice-presidency of Samuel Goldwyn, Inc. had anything to do with the Government suit. In Hollywood, President Harry M. Warner of Warner Bros., who as a patriotic gesture are already producing a series of Technicolor historical shorts, gave orders that hereafter the national anthem must be played at least once daily in each of Warner Bros.' 450 U. S. theatres...
...Hollywood, Shirley Temple got her first Christmas presents: an English Bible and four sling shots. Her mother discussed the whole situation: "The problem is the same every year. We get packages from every place in the world. . . . We let Shirley enjoy every present she gets. When she tires of something . . . we store it in the attic. Just before Christmas, we take them to a children's hospital...
...Hollywood, Aviator Douglas Corrigan, informed he was needed on the set after dinner for shots on his picture The Flying Irishman, demanded and got 25? supper money. In the past three months, Aviator Corrigan has netted some $75,000 for acting and for writing an autobiography. Most parsimonious celebrity in Hollywood, he lives in a cheap hotel room, rides to work on a bus, lunches on a nickel ice-cream bar, spends his weekends relining the brakes on his ten-year...
...borsch-supping, caviar-munching, Otchi-Tchornyia-singing Cossack (Akim Tamiroff). Its locale is Kansas. For this apparent contradiction there is a simple explanation. The Cossack is a cattle rustler. and cattle rustling, by old cinema tradition, is an un-American occupation pursued only by refugees from nations to which Hollywood does not export its wares...
...case was still full of explosive possibilities. Investigation of McKesson & Robbins' activities involved a brace of Connecticut politicians and Congressman Wright Patman. Executive Vice President Charles F. Michaels was revealed to have unloaded $118,500 worth of common stock a month before the receivership. Hollywood set to work on a Musica movie...