Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Utica, N. Y., vaudeville patrons watched one Louis Furtell's lion act; thrilled as one lion batted the man about the stage, like a big, shaggy kitten mauling a woolen doll around a nursery. Fine actor that lion tamer . . . acted as though he were hurt. Last week Actor Furtell died of his wounds...
...Nestoroff is a woman who can keep herself, almost, beyond pity or fear. Giorgio's suicide was truly satisfying to her. Now she is quite happy with Carlo Ferro, the hirsute Sicilian actor. His domination keeps her strong against remorse for Giorgio. She is sufficiently in love to be anxious for Carlo's safety in a scene where he is to kill a charging tiger, a very real beast the company has obtained because it was too dangerous for the park at Rome. She insists on precautions...
...more-than-six-foot 200-pounder stood upon the stage of the Four Cohans' Theatre in Chicago last week. His paunch heaved like a vexed hippo's, his ham of a hand smote the air, his flabby face howled. Technically, he was no vaudeville actor; he was William Hale Thompson, candidate for Mayor of Chicago. Yelled he: "I wanta make the King of England keep his blasted snoot out of America. . . . This is the issue of the campaign [he draped the Stars and Stripes over his arm]. What was good enough for Washington is good enough...
Last week a cinema actor* crouched on a cinder track at Pomona, Calif. He had been called the world's fastest human. A former Olympic star, he had burnt out, they said. Burnt or no, he would try again. Revolver barked; the cinemaman, sprang, antique legs hurled him onward. Paced by college lads he ran. Presently, head back, teeth set, he leaped through a tape. Timers announced that Charles Paddock (30-odd) had brought the world's record for 250 metres from 31.2 seconds down to 27.6. Southern Californians were pleased. "It's the air," they explained...
When A Man Loves (John Barrymore). It would be hard to discover a title that coos more tenderly to the box office or a picture in which an actor gives more generously of his profile and passion. The scenario is said to be related to Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut. At any rate, it resembles Mr. Barrymore's other romantic films in that it gives him the opportunity to wear heroic clothes, kill villains, and outwit King Louis XV. After doing these things many times, he finds himself in a tiny sailboat with Dolores Costello bound...