Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Charles Waldron, 71, character actor, veteran of 400-odd roles (among his sinister creations: Edward Moulton-Barrett in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Senator Ellsworth Langdon in now-playing Deep Are the Roots); in Hollywood...
Divorced. By Sylvia Sidney, 37, cinemactress and onetime wife of Publisher Bennett (Try and Stop Me) Cerf: Luther Adler, 42, actor son of famed Yiddish Actor Jacob P. Adler; after seven and a half years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...undramatic play is nothing in itself to warm audiences up. Neither is the name of Lincoln, which to most Japs is far more hazy than hallowed-even though Emperor Hirohito has a "cherished" bust of him in his temporary palace. But the production, with popular, 5 ft. 7 in. Actor Chojuro Kawaraskai playing Lincoln, shows great technical skill; and the theme of Emancipation arouses great interest...
Walter Huston is always a likable and skillful actor, and Apple of His Eye is a harmless enough little play-as rural and homey, at its best, as an old, dented tin dipper. But its shy and anxious courtship makes a long and languid evening. Farmer Stover shows twice the indecision of Hamlet without any of the excitement. The apple of his eye is a decent, agreeable girl but singularly unobservant. And the worried relatives, gabby neighbors and drawling farm help that punctuate-and protract-the evening are all stock-comedy figures...
Died. George Arliss (real name: George Augustus Andrews), 77, actor and cinemactor who was responsible for the general misapprehension that Disraeli, Richelieu, Voltaire, Wellington and Hamilton bore an astonishing facial resemblance to one another; of a bronchial ailment; in London...