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Word: actor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reader Ring specify what TIME covers he has considered gnomelike, gargoylelike, apelike. Some recent TIME covers included Savana Einstein, Prince Olav & Princess Martha (photographs) ; Senator Smoot, Financier Taylor, Educator Little (drawings); Actor Hampden, Racehorse Barton (in colors).−ED. Merkle Incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Mayer's publicity man. His "theme" song: Hammacher-Schlemmer* (I Love You). The Grand Street Follies have always depended largely on protean Albert Carroll, impish imitator of the grimaces and posturings of famed actresses. In this latest edition−a mockery fest which simultaneously jibes at world history, actors, producers, Broadway hits−Mimic Carroll simulates the jiggling gait of Beatrice Lillie (This Year of Grace), the lush, salivary speech of Constance Collier (the countess in Serena Blandish), the Jewish idiom of Fannie Brice (Fioretta), the long-legged, weaving rhythms of Gertrude Lawrence (Treasure Girl). He is far less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...have played principally the romantic drama," the actor continued, "though I did do Ibsen and his contemporaries some time ago. I find the modern theatre very creative, it is not decadent What I am troubled about is the opposition offered to the legitimate stage by the talking pictures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Playing Shakespeare Like Bathing in the Ocean," Hampden Says, Bemoaning Fact Best Authors Are Going Into Cinema | 5/7/1929 | See Source »

...coach while the horses were at full speed; $100 for riding a horse off a 20-ft. cliff into a river. Clown. In Berlin, Adrian Wettach of Biel, Switzerland, famed through Europe as Clown Crock, last week formed his own picture company, announced that he would be actor, director, author; that his films would rival Charles Chaplin's; that they would have no happy endings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Boyds. "Starring William Boyd" & "Featuring William Boyd" appeared simultaneously last week on the posters of United Artists and Pathé. Both posters showed pictures of a manly, straight-featured William Boyd-the Pathé Boyd a film actor of long standing, the United Artists Boyd a new recruit from the legitimate stage (What Price Glory}. Though each William Boyd had baptismal right to his name, Pathé prepared to sue United Artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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