Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Flynn, who has had plenty of troubles, not read sneers into TIME'S account of them. TIME'S story did not reflect on his professional integrity; it intended to reflect sympathetically on the perils of an actor's life, from which even escape into anonymity of the Army is impossible. (TIME still understands that he is classed 4-F.) Nor did TIME invent the story of a plumber being blown through his cellar door, which came from press dispatches...
Canadian-born Actor Raymond ("Abe Lincoln") Massey, veteran of World War I, reported for duty in Ottawa, was given a majority, assigned to the adjutant general's office...
When the Jones clique learned he wanted to be a prize fighter they formed a syndicate to back him: 22 of them, including Jones, Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Actor Frank Crumit, Socialite Tommy Tailer, Stockbroker Clifford Roberts, L. B. Maytag (washing machines), Bartlett Arkell (BeechNut Co.), Aired Severin Bourne (Singer sewing machines) and many another gold-spooned golfer. To manage their waif, they got Chick Wergeles, a Broadway press agent...
Songwriter, actor, dancer, vaudevillian. playwright, Cohan was never equaled-even by Noel Coward-for sheer versatility. But his many talents had a single aim, a showman's aim: to please the crowd. "First think of something to say," his formula ran, "Then say it the way the theatergoer wants to hear it-meaning, of course, that you must lie like the dickens." Of pure Irish stock, he never plugged the wearing of the green-it was always the red, white & blue...
...long before this sorry-go-round breaks down nobody knows. But veteran independent producer Samuel Goldwyn suspects it may be soon, fortnight ago predicted that a picture shortage was unquestionably on the way. His advice: make pictures while the film and actor last...