Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hanns, Hollywood composer and author of a new book criticizing the movies (TIME, Sept. 29), sweated and squirmed under the Washington kleigs as he listened to Committee Chief Investigator Robert Stripling describe him as "the Karl Marx of Communism in the field of music." Like Brother Gerhart, Hanns demanded the privilege of reading a statement to the committee. Chairman J. Parnell Thomas shouted an angry refusal. Thereupon, like Brother Gerhart, Eisler handed out typewritten copies of his statement to newsmen: "This hearing is both sinister and ridiculous. ... I would be delighted to spend as much time as this committee will...
...seemed not particularly interested in bald, fat little Hanns Eisler. What seemed to interest it most was a long list of "certain prominent persons" who, it charged, had tried to help Eisler enter the U.S. The list sparkled with glittery names: Radio Commentator Raymond Swing, onetime Willkieman Russell Davenport, Hollywood Director William Dieterle, Columnist Dorothy Thompson and Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Cambridge houses," reported Hollywood Scenarist Donald Ogden Stewart after a visit to Boston's bluestocking suburb, "are different in many subtle ways, such as in the fact that the leaves of the editions of the classics in Cambridge homes have often been...
Hamid Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Persia's disappearing 16-year-old brother (TIME, July 7, Sept. 29), was at it again. A week after the student prince materialized in Hollywood (after vanishing from a Washington, D.C. school), he vanished again, this time with brother Mahmoud's Cadillac convertible. Police picked him up in nearby Burbank, Calif., quickly passed him back to Mahmoud, who quickly passed him back to Washington (by air) for a fresh start...
Novello's life has revolved entirely around the theater. He has played in British movies as recently as 1937 and in a few early Hollywood silents. But "I loathe making films," he says. "It's entirely against nature to get up at 7 o'clock in the morning and put on evening dress...