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...Hollywood stars broadcasting skillfully warmed-over movie scenarios. For the anniversary, statisticians reckoned that it all added up to 650 shows, 39,120 pages of script, 14,344 musical cues and 68,460 sound effects (including an imitation of a peacock's cry* by the late George Arliss...
...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...
Despite their inartistic preoccupation with profits, the Warners have managed to turn out some of Hollywood's most highly respected pictures. They have also launched many a Hollywood "trend": film biography with George Arliss' Disraeli (1929); a new gangster cycle with Little Caesar and Public Enemy (1930-31); social-consciousness movies with I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932); the first big backstage musical, 42nd Street (1933); the first attempt to sound-film Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream...
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...
...Wardha ("he is Bernard Shaw one minute and St. Francis the next")-with Jawaharlal Nehru at the homes of friends in Delhi ("the most truly simple man I have ever known")-with Moslem Leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah at his marble-lined villa in Bombay ("an Indian George Arliss, complete with monocle...