Word: movieland
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...Films last night officially opened a student script-writing contest. Offering a 25-dollar war bond as first prize, the Harvard movieland colony also promises the winning author national attention through film and television channels...
...that way. But the fame of Klamath Falls has spread. Last week, hunters from as far away as Chicago swarmed into town. The natives were particularly scornful of what they call "California hunters,"* who swarm across the border, led by a Hollywood contingent in fancy hunting togs. Among movieland duck hunters: Clark Gable and Andy Devine...
...course, not much can result from the Un-American Activities Committee's motion-picture doings. There are Communists in Hollywood, as there are in every large community, and some of them may lose their jobs on account of the investigation. But to call the activities of movieland Red is a most vicious folly, serving only to keep the Committee itself, which is the real Un-American menace, in the two-inch headlines until it can make itself really dangerous. The victims may then be the colleges or the independent newspapers. Certainly nobody, Democrat or Republican, is safe when Louis...
From all parts of the country the story was the same: Americans were drinking harder than ever. A movieland 1945 Oscar went to the portrayal of a drunk; the book from which the story was taken was a bestseller. In a new sourcebook, Contemporary Criminal Hygiene (240 pp.; Oakridge Press; $4), Psychiatrist Robert V. Seliger of Johns Hopkins and Psychotherapist Victoria Cranford, a coworker, reported that there are 600,000 chronic alcoholics in U.S. institutions and no one knows how many outside; 2,000,000 heavy drinkers; about 38,000,000 "social drinkers...
...settled. Henceforth, Motion Picture Costumers Local 705 (A.F. of L.) would install only fabric "falsies" for such flat-chested working personnel as Hedy La-Marr, Paulette Goddard, Katherine Hepburn and Betty Button. Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706 (A.F. of L.) would install the rubber ones. Movieland bosoms rose with relief...