REVELRY BY NIGHT

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 126, 21 November 1941, Page 6

REVELRY BY NIGHT

Where Hollywood Stars Forgather |

F one can believe the screen gossip writers, no respectable resident of Hollywood, whether producer, film~star, extra, chorus girl or, for that matter, screen gossip writer, is ever to be found at home on an evening. If he (or she), is not doing a prize fight or a film premiere, he will almost surely be found engaging in uproarious revelry in one of three easily accessible night clubs, the Cocoanut Grove, Ciros, or the Biltmore. These are indeed places of revelry. No expense is spared, as the press agents say, to ensure that nothing is

omitted in the way of wine, music and other refined pleasures calculated to appeal to the MHbollywoodian’s jaded taste, In New Zealand, listeners to the ZB stations can catch a little of the atmosphere of these places through the Hello From Hollywood programme which is on three nights a week from all stations. An example of the type of entertainment provided is the programme from Ciros, which will be heard from Station 3ZB on Tuesday, November 25. Chuck Foster’s is the band- featured, and Mr, Foster’s music may already be known to short-wave listeners who have hgard his broadcasts from Station KGEI, San Francisco. The guest artists are the "Three D’s," a bright vocal trio, one of whom, Dorothy Brandon, is heard in a solo item. The programme opens with Chuck Foster’s boys playing "I’ve Been Drafted," one of the many song hits inspired by the American defence programme. Then comes the "Three D’s" singing "Little Brown Jug," "G’Bye Now," and "Listen to My Heart," and Dorothy Brandon singing "Dark Eyes." The orchestra accompanies them, a a oA.

OLLYWOOD has coined and adapted words (It, Oomph), to illustrate some of its by-pro-ducts, but until lately, it had never found a suitable synonym for its basic commodity, which is not movies, not stars, not the California sun, but a _ peculiar state of mind accompanied by delusions of grandeur and prestige. Such a word (reports "Time") has now {gained currency in Hollywood: "Izzat" (pronounced iz-zat). To receive several long-dis-tance telephone calls (via lackey holding portable ’phone), while lunching at Hollywood’s Brown Derby is to acquire "izzat." To work for a mere 1000 dollars a week after once earning 2000 dollars is to lose "izzat." The word "izzat" was borrowed from the Hindus and Persians, who took it from the Arabic, In Arabic, "izzat’" (freely translated) means: "the most utterly glorious magnificence."