Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might impair "hands across the sea" relationships. Even before he left for the U. S., the new Ambassador was faced with one of these last week. Prissy delegates to the International Women's Friendship League in Tokyo protested to the police authorities when they learned that 30 lissome Hollywood girl Softball players, Japan-bound for an exhibition series, habitually cavorted about the fields in snug-fitting, thigh-revealing shorts. Police decreed that the girls' shorts must be lengthened to cover the knees...
...eating monster. The cinema has, in fact, covered the subject of Africa so frequently and so badly that cinemaddicts might be excused for believing that the whole terrain must be at once less worthy of attention and more thoroughly photographed than any other place on earth, outside of Hollywood. One certain effect of Dark Rapture will be to shatter this conviction...
...HOLLYWOOD--Samuel Goldwyn, the movie producer, was recovering today from the shock of a Scottish collegiate prank which carried farther than its authors anticipated. Goldwyn was advised today that he had been nominated for the position of Lord Rector of Glasgow University. Careful checkups with London officials seemed to substantiate the notification. Then cable dispatches from Glasgow disclosed the Goldwyn nomination was part of the annual student fun-making which accompanies nomination of a rector. They also had nominated Haile Solassic...
...failure of "Room Service" to click well is a fair warning to producers that a good play is one thing, and a good screen reproduction of the same play another. Nothing that Hollywood has purchased from Broadway has succeeded in being a thing of real merit, with the possible exceptions of "The Petrified Forest" and "You Can't Take It With...
Died. Conway Tearle, 60, oldtime cinemactor (Dancing Mothers, Altars of Desire), stage star (Dinner at Eight). onetime matinee idol who appeared with Ellen Terry and Ethel Barrymore; of heart disease; in Hollywood...