Word: arliss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Escapists. In Conroe, Tex., Ben May and Arliss Huffman, back in jail after they had locked up Jailer W. C. Thomas and escaped, locked up Jailer W. C. Thomas and escaped...
Noel Coward (Blithe Spirit) was fined $800 and costs of $80 in London for not offering $57,847 in U.S. assets to the British Government. Like George Arliss (TIME, Oct. 6), he pleaded ignorance, said living in the U.S. for six and a half months was unpractical on the $40 allowed...
...exwife, and Gwladys Hopkins Whitney, ex of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, helped form a lobby in Washington against a proposal to tax ex-wives for the alimony they get and let ex-husbands deduct the alimony they pay. Dropped once, the measure is due to reappear. Camel-lipped Character George Arliss appeared before the Lord Mayor of London, was fined $18,000 for not registering with the Bank of England some $52,000 worth of U.S. and Canadian securities. The onetime portrayer of money-wizard Rothschild said he was an innocent in money matters. The Lord Mayor disagreed. On parole from...
...Hoover's office boy during World War I. He has also been a stable boy, peanut salesman, barker and roustabout for Snapp Brothers' Circus, paid promoter of theatricals on Long Island and in Yellowstone Park. As a Hollywood press agent he plugged Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd, George Arliss, Lupe Velez, Hedy Lamarr. During the past decade he press-agented more than 50 night clubs, in 1936 opened his own La Conga in Hollywood, followed it with several Beachcombers (in Manhattan, Providence, Boston, Miami Beach) and Manhattan's Copacabana. In these resorts he has featured tropic atmosphere...
...them to Lake Arrowhead, there to study the call of four fine hounds. Best scholar was one Lee Millar, who progressed so fast that he was eventually permitted to imitate Mr. Smith, the wire-haired terrier of The Awful Truth. Another imitator discovered by Lux was George Arliss, who supplemented his performance on one show with several fine peacock screeches...