Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Actor of Olympian Manner. Thus last week Douglas MacArthur strode on to the U.S. presidential-election stage. The audience perked up immediately. Here, among characters whose performances were greying with familiarity, was an actor of Olympian manner and delivery, a man to put emotion into the show. General MacArthur was a candidate to arouse either intense hostility or deep admiration. Ever since the early days of the Pacific war, anti-MacArthur feeling (e.g., "Dugout Doug") has been whipped up by a strange medley ranging from Navy men to Communist-fronters. This hostile sentiment on personal rather than professional grounds...
...London, Mme. Tussaud's waxworks voted out a few old favorites. Set to be scrapped: Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, ex-King Refer of Yugoslavia, the late Actor George Arliss, the late "strongman" John Metaxas of Greece and Lord Beaverbrook. From their waxy ruins will rise the figure of Comic Danny Kaye, latest toast of London. Also to be unveiled shortly: a carrot-haired effigy of Greer Garson, first actress to be waxed since Katharine Hepburn...
Elsewhere on Broadway, Actor Evans was taking money out of the theater with both hands-and shipping a pocketful of royalties every week to Playwright Shaw. , By last week, Evans' hit production of Shaw's Man and Superman had grossed $760,000 from 195 performances; Shaw's royalties added up to $114,000 (before U.S. and British taxes)-the most he had ever made from...
...Double Life. Ronald Colman has a histrionic field day as an actor who loses himself-and his mind-in his part (TIME...
...Double Life. Ronald Colman has a histrionic field day as an actor who loses himself-and his mind-in his part (TIME...