Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queer People, by Authors Carroll & Garrett Graham, is a novel which satirizes Hollywood in almost libelous terms. Its horrid characters are drawn so plainly from life that they set Hollywood's hair on end. The hero is a drunken and unscrupulous libertine who, while performing ably as "professor"' in a sporting house, receives a splendid tip from a producer whose identity Hollywood sophisticates claim to know. The heroines of Queer People are insistently immoral and the scene of their depravities seems to combine the worst features of Sodom and Gomorrah. The uproar of Hollywood's bigwigs...
...Dove (sometimes reported engaged to him) ; Pat O'Brien (Front Page) ; Jean Harlow (Hell's Angels). Forced to hire actors from other producers, Producer Hughes found that other producers were reluctant to let him have actors for any picture, that they flatly refused to help him cast Queer People. Independent cinemactors were afraid to appear in the picture. Further, it became clear that if Producer Hughes did find a cast, he would have only the theatres which he controls and the comparatively unremunerative independent theatres in which to show Queer People. The large chains, controlled by the important...
Producer Hughes was considered one of the queerest persons in Hollywood when he spent $4,000,000 'On Hell's Angels. He was considered somewhat less queer when the picture's profits showed signs of reaching $2,000,000. His personal income, estimated at $4,000 to $5,000 a day, inherited from his father who invented an oil drill, was further augmented by the takings of The Front Page. Observers familiar with the Hughes determination wondered whether he had really decided to abandon Queer People, wondered why he did not hire a cast of legitimate actors...
...Germans, French Canadians. "I used to ride home in the most unreasonable state of excitement; I always felt as if they had told me so much more than they said-as if I had actually got inside another person's skin." She likes Nebraska: "It's a queer thing about the flat country-it takes hold of you, or it leaves you perfectly cold. A great many people find it dull and monotonous; they like a church steeple, an old mill, a waterfall, country all touched up and furnished, like a German Christmas card. I go everywhere...
Sirs: In reference to your "Queer Drugs" on p. 24 of July 6 issue in regard to a Japanese Silky fowl. This bird has a normal tail, and is not to be confused with the Yokohama or Phoenix chicken of which there is a specimen in the Tokyo museum with a tail covert length...