Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revolution, an oblong panel of three grim-faced spectacled spinsters standing in front of a framed engraving of Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware. Since last January, it has been the property of Emanuel Goldenberg of Bucharest. Rumania, better known to the U. S.'public as Cinemactor Edward G. Robinson (The Whole Town's Talking). Patient Actor Robinson, who walked into the Ferargil Galleries and paid cash for it, was unable to enjoy his picture until last month when it was released from the Grant Wood show in Chicago's Lake-side Press Galleries...
Swimmers. Jack Medica has been recognized as the ablest middle-distance free-style swimmer in the U. S. since Johnny Weissmuller became a cinemactor. Peter Fick, last week's free-style sprint winner, 20 years old, 185 lb., broke Weissmuller 's 100-metre record last year. Third of last week's main Olympic hopes, unknown nationally until this winter, Adolph Kiefer is a 16-year-old Chicagoan, trained by his father, onetime swimming instructor in the German Army...
Arrested in Manhattan, charged with smuggling a stolen bracelet into the U. S. by proxy, was Cinemactor George K. Arthur (Riptide). At Cannes last summer, according to Scotland Yard operatives, Cinemactor Arthur met a London banker named Stephen Raphael, took a suite with him, made off with a diamond-&-sapphire bracelet worth $1,650. On the Cannes beach, he met Mary Hewitt Jopling, 18, daughter of President Morgan W. Jopling of New York Rubber Co. By telling her the bracelet was his mother's, he persuaded her to wear it back to the U. S. Banker Raphael and Scotland...
Author von Stroheim, onetime cinemactor ("The Man You Love To Hate") and Hollywood director (Foolish Wives, 1922; Greed, 1925; The Merry Widow, 1025), is described by his publisher as a "thickset, fanatical Prussian . . . possessed of a pair of spaniel brown eyes and a personality so winning that he seems able to move either mountains or human hearts with equal ease." He has again & again felt his passion for uncompromising cinema realism thwarted by cautious superiors. As a safety valve with which to blow off the pent-up, perilous stuff, he wrote Paprika. In it he "has given his passion...
...little man who followed Perry to the ping-pong title presents an interesting contrast. Small, pale and agile, with a striking facial resemblance to Cinemactor Richard Dix, Viktor Gyözö ("Viki") Barna was brought up in Budapest, played real tennis as a child, gave it up when he got a table tennis set on his 13th birthday...