Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon a cross burned in front of a Jewish fraternity house on the University of Southern California campus; another illumined the house of a Los Angeles Negro. In Hollywood's cream-stucco Temple Israel, Rabbi Max Nussbaum, a Nazi refugee, gazed with dismay at the holy ark, ravaged by unknown vandals, and the swastikas and hate messages smeared on the walls of his temple...
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major (Joseph Szigeti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 9 sides); Symphony No. 1 in C Minor (Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Szigeti plays Brahms's bombastic music straight, while Conductor Stokowski plays it pretentiously. Szigeti's concerto is a better performance, but Stokowski's symphony is more clearly recorded on unbreakable vinylite...
...Hollywood in 1937, wrote background scores for movies, gained fame chiefly for marrying (and being divorced by) Martha Raye and Judy Garland. On the side, he knocked out some good modern melodies: Holiday for Strings, One Love. The Chicago Symphony played his three full-length symphonic tone poems-Ensenada Escapade, Shadows, Nostalgia...
...treat each other with "mutual respect" in the June 4 primaries and save their spleen for Republicans in the fall. But last week both disrespect and discord cropped up. Most of the Democratic regulars were backing ex-Congressman Will Rogers Jr. for Senator. The rugged radicals of the Hollywood Independent Committee for the Arts, Sciences and Professions, of the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and left-of-center A.F.L. unions were spending and electioneering hard for Congressman Ellis Patterson, who has often shown an agile adherence to the Communist line...
Like many another guest at the Red Army Day party in Moscow, U.S. Embassy Clerk Waldo Ruess (rhymes with U.S.) of Hollywood was feeling no pain. Some time during the evening his eye lit on a lovely actress from the State Theater and he asked to drive her home. The girl accepted, but before they had gone far she had a change of heart and jumped out of his car, yelling for help. As a cop or two ran up, Clerk Ruess sighed at the wonder of woman and drove...