Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. James Keteltas Hackett, 57, actor; in Paris, of heart disease, the day before he was to have appeared in Macbeth before the King and Queen of England...
...boasts as a Major in the army of Bullgarial; and his poses, hitherto obnoxious, become enjoyable. I was almost induced to go the grave of John the Baptist and apologize for not understanding that he, too, was a braggart. Mr. Jewett forgot that he was the great Shakesperian actor, and became an understanding Shavion interpreter...
Denied Divorce. Christian Arthur Wellesley, fourth Earl of Cowley, actor, descendant of Richard Colley Marquess Wellesley (famed Governor General of India, 1797-1805; Duke of Wellington's brother); from the Countess, onetime May Picard, Manhattan chorus girl; at London...
Emil Jannings, foremost German cinema actor: "I do not remember New York, as I left Brooklyn, my birthplace, for Germany at the age of one. I have returned to make pictures for a year in Hollywood, following my success with U. S. audiences in Passion, The Last Laugh, Variety. Debarking from the S. S. Albert Ballin in Manhattan, I carried my pet mocking bird in a cage. Warned by newsgatherers not to let Hollywood 'get' me, I replied: 'Ah, I am Jannings! I go to Hollywood. I am still Jannings...
...Story.* Sam Raingo, sly master of chicane, pensively retired millionaire, is called to London by the comrade of his homely boyhood in the north of England, Andy Clyth. It is 1918. Silver-haired Andy, actor, poet, jealous but genial friend, is Prime Minister and, since the War is going well, " the greatest man in the world." For years he has snubbed Sam Raingo politically. Now he needs him to manage the Ministry of Records, which is to say, British propaganda at home and abroad. Over a breakfast in No. 10 Downing St. an adroit bluffing match...