Talking Screen (Sep-Oct 1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Talking Screen
Date:
Sep-Oct 1930
Publisher:
[New York, Dell publishing company, inc.]
Volume:
Talking screen
Leaf #:
000146
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
December 21, 2023
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THAT MAKES IT TOUGH This month the author of an earlier article on Hollywood's bright side reveals the grimmer aspects o f li fe in the film capital You may speak of gin and beer in almost any village square and the corner cop will tell you where to get it. But in Hollywood you may sing a song o' sixpence till Carrie (Bow) marries Harry (Richman) and you'll never get a pocketful of rye. For there isn't a speakie in Talkie Town — barring one on Santa Monica which you 11 never find. And if you like likker with your liverwurst, that makes it tough. Now don't get me wrong. The likker may be had. But you can't duck the garish light of day by stepping into the dim and holy cloisters of Charlie Murphy's, and ordering your pleasant poison over the polished mahogony. You must possess telephone numbers through which you may conjure up the Jjinn of gin. Or friends who will save a pal from the terrors of death by drought. Bacchus never crosses the bar. In Hollywood. Next to Prohibition the chief conversational topic of the n.ation is the Weather. In Hollywood it's most unusual. Theoretically no Talkie Town cloud is biggerthan-a-man's-hand. Theoretically bloo skies are bloo After a landslide of popularity a star is just as apt to wake up next morning to discover that a landslide of an entirely geological nature has rai.sed heck with his front porch. 40