Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Phillips (Cinemactor Tully Marshall), 78, lantern-jawed veteran of Hollywood's silent days; inEncino, Calif. His roles ranged from damp-rotted beachcombers to dyspeptic plutocrats; his biggest hit: as The Covered Wagon's bibulous frontier scout, Jim Bridger...
...Cinemactor Robert Taylor, 31, amateur flyer, joined the Naval Air Force in Los Angeles as a junior grade lieutenant, to train at Corpus Christi...
...years ago Rubinstein bought a stucco Spanish hacienda in Hollywood from Cinemactor Pat O'Brien. There he established his blonde Polish wife and their two young children, who attend a Quaker school. As friends Rubinstein prefers writers to musicians, pals around whenever possible with Ernest Hemingway...
More embarrassing to Ed Flynn than anything which took place in Washington was the fact that 3,000 miles away another Flynn-impulsive Cinemactor Errol-was also undergoing a personal ordeal (for rape). To Ed Flynn's annoyance, accounts of the two inquisitions continued to pop up side-by-side in the nation's press. Most amusing mélange of the two stories appeared in the Denver Rocky Mountain Herald, a small weekly of 2,000 circulation, edited by the wife of Poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril. Said the Herald, in a front-page jingle titled Flynnlandia...
These descriptions became part of the carefully nurtured legend of Alexander Woollcott. The legend was no more varied than the man. Despite his activities as dramacritic, radio raconteur, cinemactor, women's club lecturer, magazine contributor, author (While Rome Burns, etc.), playwright, Broadway actor, he achieved his greatest success in the tireless, diverse role of Alexander Woollcott-a complex of childish petulance, fierce, blind loyalties, sentimental sophistication, and a cannibalistic curiosity about people and things...