Tinsel Town (1950)

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   La-La Land.  Lotus Land.  Land of ProQuest LOS ANGELES TIMES 1881-1922.
   The CASSELL DICTIONARY OF SLANG has 1970+ for "tinsel town."  HDAS?
   Ancestry.com newspapers have several syndicated columns based in
Hollywood.  I searched with "Hollywood" as the key word.
   Was this coined by Virginia MacPherson of United Press?


    25 May 1950, WATERLOO SUNDAY COURIER (Waterloo, Iowa), pg. 3, col. 1:
   Trembling with excitement, the voluptuous movie queen joined the ranks of
other tinsel-town celebrities while her fans shouted:  "C'mon sweater girl!
Give!"
(Lana Turner..The story is by UP writer Virginia MacPherson--ed.)


   27 June 1950, OXNARD PRESS-COURIER (Oxnard, California), pg. 7, col. 3:
_Tinseled Hollywood, Not as Glamorous As It Might Look to Outsiders_
      By Virginia MacPherson
   HOLLYWOOD (U.P.)--Life in tinsel-town isn't always as glamorous as it
looks to fame-and-fortune hungry outsiders.


   14 May 1952, CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM (Elyria, Ohio), pg. 12, col. 2:
_Hollywood Stars Help_
_Wash Dishes At Parties_
(...)
   The glass palace, the only home designed by famed induistrial architects
William Pierera and ex-soap king Charles Luckman, is currently a hot topic of
conversation over toothpicks-and-olives in tinsel town.


   20 November 1952, CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM )Elyria, Ohio), pg.14, col. 3:
   Hughes formerly reigned as the busiest romancer in tinsel town.