Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Dwight Green of Illinois was having a case of actor's nerve. Aware that the Republican Convention would be televised, the silver-haired keynoter tiptoed into a television studio and tried on some faces. He tried eyebrow pencils, lipsticks and Pancake Make-up (neither Max Factor 23 nor Max Factor 29 was quite right, but Max Factor 28, a nice healthy brown, looked wonderful on the handsome governor). Thinking it all over, he settled for a fast barbershop...
Howard Hughes, one of the targets of the old War Investigating Committee. "I hereby offer you a job as a motion picture actor," wrote Producer Hughes, new boss of RKO, "at a salary of $300 a week. This is twice the usual starting salary, but you are no amateur...
Actress Elsie Janis, 59, "Sweetheart of the A.E.F." in World War I, and Actor-Husband Gilbert Wilson, 42, decided to call it quits after 16 years...
...Byrnes told Aiken County, S.C. high-school graduates that the phrase "you-all" was good English-if it is used as Southerners use it, in the plural. Said Byrnes: "There is nothing which irritates me quite so much as to attend the theater in New York and hear an actor . . . impersonate a Southerner and, in addressing an individual...
...chief plot of "Les Eufants" concerns the nebulous love affair of an unwordly mime, Baptiste, and a tarnished but not unattractive young lady named Garance. Around this powerfully developed theme lie constellations of characters and stories: the rise of Frederick, the Actor of the Age; the life and death of Garance's titled paramour; and glimpses into the lives of actors and criminals and others too numerous to describe...