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Article: SID'S SHOWPLACE TURNS 70: HOLLYWOOD'S FAVORITE ICON TRULY A STAR.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- May 22, 1997
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Byline: Carol Bidwell Daily News Staff Writer
Picture it: Hollywood Boulevard, 1927.
You're standing in an excited crowd outside a theater like nothing you've ever seen before. And here come the stars: Norma Talmadge in feathers, Mary Pickford in furs, Pola Negri in sequins, Gloria Swanson dripping diamonds. And in tuxes, Douglas Fairbanks, Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin.
Lights, action, stars! Can this be anywhere but Grauman's Chinese Theatre, designed to be the most fantastic showplace in the world?
That's exactly the reaction impresario Sid Grauman, the son of a minstrel man turned theater owner, wanted when he convinced investors ...