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Hollywood Then and Now Notes From a Distracted Era
A collage of Hollywood items, plays, and showbiz gossips from Las Vegas clubs to New York tabloid chatter. Mentions include courtship styled divorces at Ousis Cafe, Dick Kreegan as snap-slot camera chief, Bill Halligan finishing a play for Ethel Barrymore, and Wilson Mizner’s Alias Jones Dora. Also notes avocados price, underworld arrests, and anecdotes about Cantor, Jo C. Cok, and Dew B. Sweet among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Operative 202
Hollywood
Ousis Cafe
Las Vegas
Nevada
Dick Kreegan
Paris
Bill Halligan
Ethel Barrymore
Grateful Age
Jed Kiley
Ezror
Fox
the Cat
Susan
Eddie Cantor
Willie Collier
Palm Head
New York
Underworld
Wees
Ty Los Angels
Beait
San Diego
Walker
Bert Wheeler
Mayor Walker
Pale Boringe
Boyd
Walter Catlett
Horwood
Ty Epersting
Joe Cok
Joni
Charles B. Driecoll
Quinn Martin
Fox Films
Dinty Moore
Yale
Oakland
Hunter Island
Joe Cook
Alocks
Bondy
Carl Helm
Atiana
Broadway
Art Editors
Fredericksburg
Virginia
George Jean Nathan Ie
Waeland
Billy Rose
William Rosenerg
Helen Morgan
Dean Cornwell
Los Angeles
Public Library
Dew B. Sweet