Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there wasn't any free stuff, and there wasn't much excitement. In 1944, the reformers committed an act of political cowardice. They ran Guitar Player Jimmy Davis for governor. Davis, who wanted to go to Hollywood, was a good candidate but a bad governor. He was just supposed to keep the seat warm until Sam Jones could come back...
Mary Lasker has long been used to handling money; she started a dress pattern business (Hollywood Patterns) which boomed for 17 years. She was also a successful art dealer (she divorced her first husband, Art Dealer Paul Reinhardt, in 1934). In 1940 she married Albert D. Lasker; two years later he liquidated his rich advertising firm, Lord & Thomas, to busy himself with good works in science and medicine. Both the Laskers are interested in "finding out what is wrong, then helping people who try to clean up the mess...
Melchior, who makes more money in such semi-things as Hollywood musicals than he does at the Met, volunteered to stage some of the operas he knows best-Wagner's Tristan tmd Isolde and part of the Ring Cycle ("ones with not too big a chorus")-with his fellow stars pitching in "on a cooperative basis." If the operas went over, he would try some others. And if he couldn't produce them in the Met, he would do it in a Broadway theater...
...Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Conductor: Eugene Ormandy...
...Angeles Coliseum, Poole witnesses the rites of "purification" of Belial Eve and the beginning of the mating season at California's biggest celebration: Belial Day. "His Eminence, the Arch-Vicar of Belial, Lord of the Earth, Primate of California, Servant of the Proletariat, Bishop of Hollywood," explains to Poole that the triumph of his lord was assured by the rise of two doctrines during the pre-atom era: "Progress and Nationalism . . . the theory that Utopia lies just ahead and that, since ideal ends justify the most abominable means, it is your privilege and duty to rob, swindle, torture, enslave...