Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vaudeville and auctioneering reclaimed him until 1920 when he campaigned for the mayoralty with his wife ("Me and Sarah"), successfully, against enemies that called him "a vulgar vaudeville actor." His method this time was to invite the public to free vaudeville programs, then orate. Leaving office, he sought nomination for governor, losing to Klan-backed Ed. Jackson. His latest public appearance was last week as a witness in the trial for corruption of his mayoral successor, John L. Duvall (see CORRUPTION...
...until 10 p.m. Phillips Carlin battles with the endless details of the station's business. He arranges programs, conducts rehearsals, selects artists, supplies ideas. Despite the volume of this work he likes to see fights and football games; accordingly, he goes along with Mr. McNamee. He is the chief actor-manager of radio...
Engaged. Cyril Francis Maude, 65, famed English actor (retired), widower (1924); to Mrs. Harry Thew, widow (1926) of the onetime master of the Brexhill Harriers. The Maudes were oldtime neighbors of the Thews at Little Common, near Brexhill. Recently Mr. Maude was offered the role of Samuel Pepys in And So To Bed, also the lead in The Zoo (new play by Michael Arlen and Winchell Smith); said he: "I am already engaged to be married...
...leads to the discovery of her guilt after acquittal by a jury trial. The Trial of Mary Dugan. As the ever laggard audience strolled into the National Theatre they found the curtain up. It was an uninteresting, drab courtroom scene they saw and it, too, filled up gradually with actors-lawyers, policemen, scrub women, gum-chewing onlookers-who meandered onto the stage as haphazardly as the audience to their seats. Then the Judge rapped for order. Ann Harding, as Mary Dugan, accused of murdering her paramour, was ushered into court. The trial was on. The dull courtroom walls fairly trembled...
Married. Julia Wainwright Robbins Hoyt, 30, actress; to Louis Calhern, actor; at Noroton, Conn...