Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tears. Lubitsch is the genius of the nimbler gaieties-the subtle graces of light comedy. He has taken a thin old story of the businessman, the bored wife and the Plutonic musician and made it grow and ripple with amusement. He has even made Monte Blue seemingly a good actor...
Married. William Faversham, 57, famed actor, secretly to Edith Campbell, 39, actress, daughter of onetime Mayor Joseph Campbell of Phoenix, Ariz.; at Huntington, L. I. This is Mr. Faversham's third marriage; he was divorced from the late Marian Merwin Faversham many years ago. His second wife, Julie Opp, famed actress, bore him two sons, died in 1921. Harry J. Walker, for many years manager of the Belasco Theatre, Manhattan, was Miss Campbell's first husband...
...Bayreuth festival, the second since the War, opened last week with Die Meistersinger. Parsifal followed, then the Ring. Wagnerites crowded the town to capacity, enthused over the general excellence of the performances. New hope was born in Manhattan operagoers with the appearance of Tenor Lauritz Melchior, an able actor with a good voice, who will come next year to the Metropolitan Opera House to help relieve the nasal Tenors Rudolf Laubenthal and Curt Taucher...
...with a joke-book before he went? 90 sheets of paper each with an alleged joke written out upon it by such folk as Governor Brewster of Maine, Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, Mayor Curley of Boston, Mayor Hylan of New York, Colyumnist Don Marquis, Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, Actor Charles Winninger, Mrs. Charles Winninger (stage name: Blanche Ring), Publicist Bruce Barton, Jackie Coogan. The collection was entitled A Log of Laughter, One Laugh A Day. Provided they do not get stranded in the North, MacMillan and friends can count upon one loud laugh per day until the return. Specimen joke...
Never since the War had such immense crowds been seen at Ascot. Everybody of any importance seemed to be present, from the Aga Khan to Solly Joel (wealthy sportsman and diamond mine owner), Lord Derby to Actor Leslie Hanson. Numerous Americans were there, and many of those presented at Court were enjoying the excited chatter and tinkling of teacups in the royal enclosure. Some occupied their time writing postcards to friends at home...