Word: grauman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Douglas Fairbanks plays a game of his own invention called "Goose." Among his constant victims is Sid Grauman, Hollywood theatre owner. Last week when Mr. & Mrs. Fairbanks (Mary Pickford) left Hollywood for Manhattan, Jokester Grauman hired Jo-Jo, a trained cinema goose whose accomplishments are worth $25 a day; dressed him fastidiously, left him in the Fairbanks stateroom with a message wishing the couple "a goose of a good time." Jo-Jo was not returned before train time. His owner grew worried, threatened to sue Jokester Grauman for $2,500. Jokester Grauman, flustered, wired Mr. Fairbanks at Albuquerque...
...said that some of the great inhabitants have tired of the super-splendor of these evenings and stay sternly at home. But even they could not be entirely unconscious of an opening at Sid Grauman's famed Chinese Theatre last fortnight. Mr. Grauman, conspiring with the Warner Brothers, whose picture he was showing, studded the hills with searchlights. Red, green, and yellow, they scanned the sky by scores. For miles and miles they traced the night with tidings that something stupendous was in progress. That something...