Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marriage Revealed. Cinemactor Arthur ("Harpo") Marx, 42, mute member of the four Marx comedians; and Susan Fleming, 31, onetime Follies showgirl; "around Sept. 26"; "somewhere in California or Nevada." Minus his frowzy blond wig, he said he had driven aimlessly with his brunette bride-to-be until he found a justice of the peace, went through the ceremony unrecognized. Upon telegraphing President Roosevelt congratulations, Funnyman Marx explained he had kept his marriage secret until after Nov. 3 "because I didn't want to crowd you off the front page...
...year of California fruit and other products, almost half of which was shipped out of the state, the chains sloganed "22 is a tax on You." Most pretentious piece of chain propaganda began six months ago with "California's Hour," a radio program with oldtime Cinemactor Conrad Nagel as Master of Ceremonies. Independent storemen founded an Anti-Monopoly League raised some $50,000 (compared to the $400,000 to $500,000 which the chains admitted spending), plied the public with counter propaganda...
...four days hard-looking Film Director Wesley Ruggles, brother of Cinemactor Charles Ruggles, vainly searched Chicago for a "mug," concluded: "I prowled the stockyards . . . paced through Cicero where some of the gangland mugs used to live, but I couldn't find a single mug that looked like...
Daniel Boone (RKO), the week's second item of Americana, was originally produced as a George O'Brien Western. It turned out better, partly because it is a relatively faithful adaptation of history, partly because Cinemactor O'Brien's chesty musculature fits perfectly the aver age conception of famed Long Hunter Boone, a middle-sized man who, wrote Audubon, "appeared gigantic...
...Bankrupt Cinemactor Reginald Denny two months ago set up a model airplane factory in Hollywood, started producing a six-foot monoplane powered by a single-cylinder, 1/5-horsepower gasoline engine. To lure financial backing, he last week sent a Denny standard model zooming from Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal carrying eight ounces of gasoline. With news cameramen and a National Aeronautic Association official trailing in a full-sized airplane, the tiny ship soared up to 1,600 ft., flew ten miles till it crashed into the Santa Suzanna Mountains after 1 hr., 47 min. Announcing that the demonstration had brought...