Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loretta (real name: Gretchen) Young two years ago helped make a name for herself by eloping to Yuma, Ariz. with Cinemactor Grant Withers, despite protests of her mother who said that, at 17, she was not old enough for matrimony. She refused to try to have her marriage annulled, ended it by divorce after 17 months. Her sisters, Polly Ann Young and Sally Blane, are cinemactresses. Loretta Young got her first job when a director called up Polly Ann. Under five-year contract to First National, she has had increasingly important roles in The Riding Voice, Taxi, The Hatchet...
...funny. Warner Brothers may have underpaid Actor Cagney but they have always given him good dialog. His comment after listening to a piano recital: "That guy has a great left 'hand." After bickering for two months (TIME, May 9) about his $1.600 weekly salary which he considered outrageously low, Cinemactor Cagney was last fortnight said to have reached an agreement with his employers, but last week he denied this. He left Hollywood to motor to Manhattan, stated that his cinema career (The Public Enemy, Smart Money, Taxi, Blonde Crazy, Winner Take All) was definitely finished...
Harold, 20. son of Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou, was arrested on a murder charge in Los Angeles after his automobile overturned at 80 m. p. h. and killed his companion, a Miss Marjorie Gauthier...
Engaged. John Gilbert, film actor; and Virginia Bruce, his leading lady in Downstairs (now in production). Cinemactor Gilbert may not wed until his divorce from his third wife, Ina Claire, becomes final...
...until Depression hit the oil industry. But its greatest fame came from the Wild West circus organized in 1906 by the first Col. Miller's three sons, George, Joe & Zack. The troupe comprised some 1,400 cowboys, cowgirls, Indians, Cossacks, animal trainers, 600 horses, hundreds of wild animals. Cinemactor Mix and Funnyman Rogers got their start there. Col. Joe rode in a saddle set with 246 diamonds. Gems glittered in the neckties and on the fingers of the other brothers. In 1914 the show closed. When it reopened in 1924 interest in the Wild West was dead. For seven more...