Word: boulevard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murmur of traffic and a muffled clatter of Halloween high jinks floated up one evening last week to the roof of Hollywood's Knickerbocker Hotel. Searchlights on top of nearby cinema houses fingered the rosy sky over Hollywood Boulevard. On the hotel roof, ignoring a milling throng of spiritualists, magicians, newshawks, cameramen and gawpers, a plump, white-haired woman walked down a length of red plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table...
...Fenway and Paramount Theatres this week is "The Big Broadcast of 1937", fresh from its first run at the Metropolitan, and "Hollywood Boulevard", with John Halliday...
...Hollywood Boulevard" is a good second feature for it continues in the same light vein. John Halliday plays the part of a once great movie star on the out and out. Being broke and on the verge of ending it all, he turns out to be easy meat for the ambitious owner of a true love story magazine...
...refer to Maurice L. Rothschild, directly across State St. from the new Goldblatt super-bargain palace; Henry C. Lytton's Hub, across the other boundary street, Jackson Boulevard; the old Spiegel-Cooper store (now Sears, Roebuck) down the street: the Brothers Mandel on the "world's busiest corner"; the Netcher's Boston Store; Komiss Co., ad infinitum...
...oftener he taxis thither by air to confer with Sears' President Robert E. Wood, but his home is in Philadelphia and most of his work is done in his office in the tower of Sears Roebuck's great $8,000,000 store far out on broad Roosevelt Boulevard...