Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elsie Janis, musicomedienne, explained why she carried her arm in a sling: she had been wrestling, clowning with Cinemactor Ramon Novarro at her Hollywood home. Said she: "It was just too ridiculous. ... I was just about ready to claim victory when he gave his body a slight twist and my shoulder slipped out of place...
...students at flying schools of Roosevelt Field and Curtiss Airport, L. I. last fortnight included: John J. McNamara, Manhattan streetcar motorman; Abraham Walter Lafferty, onetime Congressman from Oregon; Buffalo Child Long Lance, Blackfoot Indian Chief, one-time cadet in the U. S. Military Academy, lately a cinemactor (The Silent Enemy, TIME, May 26). Another pupil, one for whom the instruction was exceedingly brief (after he and his teacher had flown together for only three hours the pupil went up solo, record brevity for civilian flying), was Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 36, inventor of the artificial horizon for airplanes, youngest...
...rare Townsend fur seal, told newsgatherers that they had seen white seals on Guadalupe Island, off the coast of Mexico. They had not been able to get a specimen since the animals were lying on inaccessible rocks. When he read press accounts of the white seals, John Barrymore, cinemactor who has twice chased the white whale, Moby Dick, on the screen, set off at once for the island in his yacht, Infante, accompanied by his wife, baby and scientists...
Died. Milton Sills, 48, famed cinemactor, intelligent player of stupid two-fisted roles (Men of Steel, Hard Boiled Haggerty, The Barker}, onetime Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Chicago, onetime actor of melodrama with a kerosene troupe in Ohio, onetime Broadway idol, all his life a student of literature and music; of a heart attack after a hard game of tennis with his wife (Doris Kenyon Sills) at their home in Brentwood Heights near Los Angeles. Eight years ago Sills told Louis Sherwin, colyumist of the New York Evening Post, why he left philosophy for acting. Said...
Symphony In Two Flats. No one qualifies for the title of British Matinee Idol better than handsome, dark-maned Ivor Novello (Davies), songwriter, theatrical manager, playwright, actor, cinemactor. A graduate of Magdalen (pronounced "maudlin") College, Oxford, he published his first ballad when 15. When he was 21 the War broke out. Mr. Novello signalized the event by composing the big-selling ballad, "Keep The Home Fires Burning...