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...DeMille technique is as peculiar as his ideology. He is almost the only director in Hollywood who still uses a megaphone. Bald, ruddy-faced, he wears riding breeches and puttees made especially for directing. On a silver chain he carries his "finder," a glass similar to the lens of the camera. Visitors are welcome on a DeMille set. He enjoys giving tirades for their benefit. During Cleopatra, he noticed an extra wearing a belt that was historically incorrect. Standing in front of his microphone, he bawled to his secretary: "Take a confidential memo to the production department," and proceeded...
...making The Night Life of the Gods. It calls for $5,000 per week if he directs, $7,500 if he also acts. Instead of rehearsing each scene under lights, Sherman rehearses the whole picture for two weeks before shooting. He has a spiky mustache, a bald dome of a head which give him the appearance of a considerate Mephistopheles. He wears linen knickerbockers and short socks. Artistic pretensions he especially despises. When Director John Stahl put up a sign "No Visitors" on his set. Director Sherman had a sign painted for his set: "See the Great Sherman At Work...
When another of his men, buzzard-bald Thomas Semmes Walmsley, Mayor of New Orleans, broke with Boss Long six months ago, the Louisiana "Kingfish" was less delighted. Last week he began his battle for revenge, a titan struggle of political machines, a free-for-all catch-as-catch-can with the courts, the national guard, the police, machine guns, radio and bad names as weapons. Point of the fight: Louisiana holds its Democratic primary Sept...
Today, at 45, U. S. Citizen Sikorsky is once again as famed as he was in Russia 20 years ago. Shy, gentle, absentminded. he lives in Longhill, Conn, with his wife and three children, usually covers his high bald forehead with an old greasy checkered...
...Bald Barnum Brown was born in Carbondale, Kans. 61 years ago. He has hunted bones off & on for 30 years, gave up a lucrative job as an oil geologist to devote all his time to paleontology. He has dug up hundreds of fossils on five continents, including the best extant specimens of a nodosaur (or epinodosaur), and a hoplitosaur, two rare species of armored, thick-set dinosaurs. He considers his enthusiasm "a form of dementia...