Revisiting Our 1975 SoCal Trip
I have been scanning the photos from our many albums lately to preserve them for the future. (Alarmingly, a few are fading away). In that process I have not only…
The Year Was 1938 – August 22
News Around Hollywood Beginning Production on this date: Per Ed Sullivan Per Sidney Skolsky OUTSIDE HOLLYWOOD Newspaper headlines charge Shirley Temple and five others of communist sympathies. The revelation came…
The Year Was 1938 – August 13
REPORTED ON THIS DATE NEWS AROUND HOLLYWOOD OUTSIDE HOLLYWOOD
1928 San Francisco – Taxis
I was at the point that I needed a character to support my protagonist, to transport him from point A to point B. Besides some unique and interesting qualities –…
The Year Was 1938 – August 8
NEWS AROUND HOLLYWOOD OUTSIDE HOLLYWOOD 20th Century Fox director of advertising & publicity Charles E McCarthy wants to solve a problem at the Roxy theater in NY, which was playing…
The Year Was 1938 – August 6
NEWS AROUND HOLLYWOOD REPORTED ON THIS DATE The assistant dance director David Robel at Paramount married dancer Mary Manners on Wednesday in Malibu. Groom was formerly with the Ballet Russe;…
The Stagehand of the Fifth Avenue
Union agreements required that the Fifth Avenue Theater employ a stagehand. I was not aware of this fact, when I met Walter Theron Coy my first week on the job.…