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Word: actor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fish was an actor who, despite the enthusiasm of thousands who paid to see him disport himself in a drawing room with only three sides to it, could not make much of a figure in one with the usual number of walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elsie | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...GUARDSMAN?Luxurious nonsense about a great actor sheep who arrayed himself in seducer wolf's disguise to test his wife's fidelity. Molnar's play, Theatre Guild production, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in the brilliant leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Comedy | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...into the wind upon the bridge, had had his last night's sleep within his bunk for he did not know how long. Into a towering gale, momentarily increasing, swept the vessel. Great seas pounded her. Within her thin steel walls reposed a freight of notables. David Warfield, the actor, returning from sojourn abroad; Julius Fleischmann, the yeast millionaire, turned racehorse breeder in his postmarital retirement; two baseball teams, the White Sox and the Giants, homing from winter play abroad; Charalambous Simopoulos, the new Greek Ambassador to the U. S., and his Secretary C. Diamantopoulos; a Manhattan cloak and suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Storm | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

...that used to do the dirty work, the villain. He acts no more. As a director, he still believes in dirty work. Greed is taken for Frank Norris's gold-digging story, McTeague, and reeks with realism; Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. He makes an actor pick his nose. Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. The No. 1 actor is a brute (Gibson Gowland) married to a grasping wife. The final episode of death in the desert carries a brutal film to a brilliantly brutal climax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 15, 1924 | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

Married. Charles Chaplin, 35, famed cinema actor, to Miss Lita Grey, his leading lady; in Empalme, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 8, 1924 | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

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