Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jefferson, 28; in Chicago. Married, Sarah Schuyler Butler, thirtyish, onetime vice chairman of New York's Republican State Committee, only child of Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler; and Captain Neville Lawrence, London broker; in Manhattan. Seeking Divorce. Joan Crawford Fairbanks, cinemactress; from Douglas Fairbanks Jr., cinemactor. Grounds: "grievous mental cruelty"; "a jealous and suspicious attitude" toward her friends; "loud arguments about the most trivial subjects," lasting "far into the night." Resigned. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, author (The Good Earth), as a Chinese missionary, voluntarily, without a hearing on heresy charges brought by Professor J. Gresham Machen...
...especially agents were against the proposal. Organized opposition came from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, which has supported studio employes in their demand for an audit of studio books as a preliminary to the wage cut. After a stormy meeting of the Academy's directors Cinemactor Conrad Nagel, the Academy's president, resigned last week. Cinema writers got a union organizer to help them reform the Screen Writers' Guild. Its 312 members agreed to have no dealings with the Bureau, planned to prevent producers from buying material from non-Guild members...
...strongly. The infant in the picture, billed as Baby LeRoy, is really eight-month-old LeRoy Winebrenner, of Pasadena, Calif. Paramount hired him from his mother for $1,000 and a $2,500 endowment policy to mature when he is 15. Partially bald, with a jolly, unscrupulous face. Cinemactor LeRoy is ingratiating in much the same way as Cinemactor Chevalier. Although he cannot talk, he gurgles more convincingly than Chevalier, who now speaks English perfectly, sometimes has a hard time remembering his French inflections...
Died. Leah Barnato Blackwell, 40, England's "Queen of Diamonds," daughter of the late Diamond Tycoon Barnett ("Barney") Barnato, divorced last month from Carlyle Blackwell, oldtime cinemactor (TIME, April 3); of heart disease; in London...
...Brown plays with deadly seriousness which is at times intensely funny, and with few of the rubberface antics which used to make his acting tasteless. A more loyal baseball enthusiast than Elmer the Great. Cinemactor Brown is part owner of the Kansas City Blues...