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Babe Ruth. James Joseph Tunney, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Charles Spencer Chaplin would be named princes...
After an apprenticeship as a stage baby, Jackie Coogan, 4, was doing the shimmy in a vaudeville act with Annette Kellerman when Charles Chaplin, then meditating The Kid, put him on contract. After he had made 14 pictures Jackie's parents sent him to Loyola High School in Los Angeles. Now 16, he is in the junior class, weighs 95 lb., likes to wear white spats away from school. His allowance, until recently, was $20 per week when he was earning about $3,500 per week...
...stiff collar as Herbert Hoover. Actress Ina Claire went as Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning, her escort was disguised as the Bishop's current antagonist, ex-Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (TIME, Dec. 15). Dancer Adele Astaire thought she was the opposite of an angel. Lady Ribblesdale went as Charlie Chaplin, Banker Mortimer Schiff as Oscar Wilde. Two socialite matrons chose to dress as "Ladies of the Temperance Union." Composer Cole Porter went as an oldtime footballer, his wife as a housemaid. Princess Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst wore the robes...
Cinema audiences in Italy must endure constant playing of Fascist anthems. Few pictures are released without classical titles. One announced in Rome as The Odyssey of Charlie Chaplin turned out to be the original Paramount, Tillie's Punctured Romance. Though Italians are partial to German imports, an observer for Cinema reports that when Emil Jannings in Othello was shown at the Royal Opera in Florence, at one performance the audience consisted of six people...
Died. John Lloyd Shine. 76, English actor, producer; friend of Shaw, Barrie, King Edward VII, Sir Henry Dickens (barrister son of Novelist Dickens); of Bright's disease, in Manhattan. Once he gave half a bob (12?) to a street urchin named Charles Chaplin. He played approximately 2,000 times in Boucicault's The Shaughraun...