Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dugan. Her first picture, Paris Bound, was an immediate, brilliant success. Now she has a $6,000-a-week contract, is the only cinemactress in Hollywood who has had three of her pictures given what are known as "gala world premieres." For her birthday two months ago, her husband, Cinemactor Harry Bannister, gave her a $35,000 play house which contains a gymnasium, tennis court, bowling alley, cinema theatre with 40 seats. In addition to tennis and bowling, Cinemactress Harding likes avocadoes, Donn Byrne's novels, Persian cats. She thinks she would rather write plays than act in them...
...know what that means, but thousands of Indian Nationalists have rid themselves of the fear of Death." Chaplin & Gandhi. Fortunately no test of strength between India and Britain was possible last week. Talk was all anyone could do, and Mahatma Gandhi even talked to Charlie Chaplin-at the cinemactor's request. When told by his Indian friend Mrs. Sarojini Naidu that "the famous Mr. Chaplin wants to see you," St. Gandhi seemed puzzled, asked: "What is he famous for? Who is this Mr. Chaplin?" Sensitive Cinemactor Chaplin had been stopping the week-end with pugnacious Winston Churchill...
...Cinemactor Chaplin's secretary sent from Los Angeles a check for ?20 for the first prize (suit, overcoat, gold watch). The same Chaplin gave the same prize in 1930. Rumored reason: to proceed with twelve baskets piled on their heads, contestants tend to manipulate their feet duckwise as Cinemactor Chaplin does. Real reason: Charles Spencer spent his urchinhood in Southwark. For a view of the race, held last fortnight at Herne Field near London, won by Porter H. Staiano...
...Roberts, Count Talleyrand, Philip Schuyler, John Jay and Betsy Hamilton, in addition to the first Secretary of the Treasury who is impersonated by no less a personage than George Arliss. Distending his nostrils and speaking in the scrupulous accents which last year got him a gold medal for "diction." Cinemactor Arliss, who was also co-author of the play on which the cinema was based, revels in the intrigues, political and amorous, which preceded the passage of Hamilton's Assumption Bill. He foils the efforts of catchpenny opponents to make him withdraw this wise legislation (by which...
...cajole him into misbehavior. Hamilton is cajoled but he survives the scandal. He even preserves the loyalty of his wife by placing upon her clothes, which she is packing to leave him, a sprig of rosemary. A potent agent in the cinema for what is Good, True & Beautiful, Cinemactor Arliss thus confers a dubious benison on U. S. schoolchildren by showing them with what simple tricks a dignitary of the golden age could turn his cavalier indiscretions into a triumph of patriotism fit for Muzzey's Reader. Nonetheless, the film will interest many and bore only those who have...