Hollywood shorts (1935)

Page scan 00092 from Hollywood shorts

Record Details:

Title:
Hollywood shorts
Date:
1935
Publisher:
California Graphic Press
Volume:
Hollywood shorts
Leaf #:
00092
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 08, 2025
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HOLLYWOOD SHORTS It Stinks "It stinks !" "It does not stink! I guess I know when a thing stinks!" A motion-picture scenario conference was in session. Horatio Van Elf was responsible for the first outburst. Of course, if any of the Van Elfs had heard it, they certainly would have been horrified at such ribaldry. His Bostonian mother would have been shocked, had she heard the expression at any time since his birth, at which moment, she had given him the noble name of Horatio. But as he was now in his forty-fourth year, wizened and sarcastic, it was a long stretch back to the moment of his christening. Nor had his mother ever dreamed that Horatio would serve as gag man in the scenario department of a motion-picture studio. Seven members sat about a long conference table. Five of them were watching Horatio and Edgar glare at each other, eagerly hoping that the outburst would develop into a long argu — 78 —