Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hitchy-Koo, in Up in the Clouds?" It was that same pretty girl, native of Jellicoe, Tenn., one-time music student at the Wilson-Green School at Chevy Chase. She had fled classroom and the First Baptist choir for the snapping footlights of Manhattan. George M. Cohan, alert actor-producer-play-wright, gave her audience & advice. The advice was to go into musical comedy. There, a Southern drawl, an arch manner and a pure voice carried her to the top of the musical stardom, to join the All-American Grand Opera Company in France. Now her cycle returns to Manhattan...
Married. Cyril Francis Maude, 65, famed English actor (retired 1926), widower (1924); to Mrs. Harry Trew, widow (1926) of the onetime Master of the Brexhill Harriers. Best man was Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of England's Boy Scout & Girl Guide movements...
...pleasant introduction to the editorials and the list of achievements of famous and less famous 1900 men, contained inside. Among these notablees are William Phillips '00, Minister to Canada, Dwight F. Davis '00; Secretary of War, Mark Sullivan '00, political writer, and Walter Hampden '00, the actor, who has just been elected president of the Players' Club of New York...
...cantor. But circumstance and the boy's yearning for the footlights made him in the end a singer of jazz for the world that lives at night. George Jessel, a jazz singer from revue and vaudeville, played the part and made his name as a straight actor. But in making the picture Mr. Jessel was passed over in favor of the man whom so many worship as their greatest entertainer, Al Jolson. It is Mr. Jolson's first picture and as such of great import to the history of the current theatre. In no other way but pictures...
...broadcasting to 50,- 000,000 people from the ringside of the Tunney-Dempsey fight and to whom the same Mr. McNamee referred equally irrelevantly through the press box microphone at the first World's Series baseball game, is now revealed. All Broadway and showbusiness knew him anyway as actor and producer of Sally, Irene, and Mary and Honeymoon Lane. To the public at large he is just another theatrical producer, fortunate in his word-of-mouth advertising. His show is much like his earlier shows; sweet and swift and aimed at the simple public rather than the shrewd...