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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Born in Brooklyn in 1886, Jannings went to live in Germany before he could talk English...
...Born in Logan, Utah, in 1895, John Gilbert left the traveling stock company of his mother (Ida Adair) for a Califor nia military academy, then dusted desks in a rubber company's western office until his ramrod bearing and bright eye got him jobs as a film extra. Becoming famed in The Big Parade, he played in a series of films with Greta Garbo. Known, like half a dozen other actors, as the "screen's greatest lover," he had been married twice before - once to a girl who sang songs at a training camp where he was stationed...
...whom a title had long been promised. Britons found more interest in the new title than in the new peeress who bore it. By Royal decree, Mrs. Broughton became Cara, Baroness Fairhaven, in honor of the fishing village on Buzzard's Bay, Mass., where her father was born. British heraldic experts said that, though many a British peer has chosen for his title the name of a foreign place-viz., Kitchener of Khartoum (Egypt), Byng of Vimy (France), Napier of Magdala (Abyssinia)-Lady Fairhaven is the first to have a title of U. S. extraction...
Carl Hamilton is one of the least publicized, most picturesque figures in Manhattan life. A laborer's son, he was born about 40 years ago in the mining town of Hollidaysburg, Pa. There were several other children. His zealous mother gave a biblical stamp to his mind which it still retains...
Author Crosby is not specially fond of little boys, nor has he one of his own. Skippy is mostly himself as he remembers himself, and as he still is. Born in Brooklyn 36 years ago, he started out to do serious painting. He cartooned at the front during the War, began Skippy in Life...