Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Milton Sills, cinema actor; to Miss Doris Kenyon, cinema actress; in the Adirondacks near Ausable Forks, N. Y. Mr. Sills's divorce from his former wife, Mrs. Gladys Sills, became final the day before the ceremony...
Divorced. Adolph Menjou, famed cinema actor; by Kathryn Menjou, in Los Angeles. He said she had made uncomplimentary references to his ancestors; she charged desertion, cruelty...
...Dooley, poet, actor, husband, and quarterback. A triple threat, and the savior of Hanover's bacon two years...
Famous figures and events are told about with all the intimacy that is required in such a book. Barrymore's consistently distinguished family, Ethel Barrymore, John Drew, appear as perplexed spectators of the author's checkered career. What happened to this distinguished actor stranded in San Francisco at the time of the earthquake (or fire if you prefer), when people turning over for a last snooze before breakfast found themselves exposed to the startled public view and sliding pajamaed into the street; riotous nights in New York when Barymore and his cronies stole the huge plaster sword from the Dewey...
...participants with such a large calmness. The narrative of how Barrymore came to do "Hamlet," the details of the production, his own notions of the play and the first performances, sound more like a casual account of deciding to play gold instead of tennis than a great actor planning to enter on his greatest artistic triumph. All this is somewhat disappointing; and it may be that, in an excess of caution Mr. Barrymore is hiding behind this casualness. Still, it has a natural air; and, although the reader might expect soul-stirring revelations, his Anglo-Saxon temperament is vaguely relieved...