Word: cinemactor
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Married. Clarence Linden ("Buster") Crabbe, 24, Olympic swimming champion, cinemactor (King of the Jungle) ; and one Adah Virginia Held, 20; in Yuma, Ariz...
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...
...dancer's hotel room. Ballyhooed into being a musical comedy star, she goes back to cooch dancing when the spieler publicizes another carnival wench in connection with a nudist colony. Possibly because preview audiences were so enthusiastic about The Half Naked Truth, RKO last fortnight ceased bickering with Cinemactor Tracy about his salary, which was withheld when he frequently failed to appear on the set. Terms of the agreement: $1,750, half of the salary due Cinemactor Tracy to be paid immediately, half when he has made his next picture...
...members of the industry, fewer celebrities than usual were present. Instead of introducing the prizewinners directly Toastmaster Barrymore paused before each name while a portion of the dialog from each prizewinning picture came through amplifiers. The dinner served also as an inaugural for the Academy's new president, Cinemactor Conrad Nagel, to succeed Producer M. C. Levee...
...Charles William Post; in Manhattan. The 1930 marriage was declared invalid by Referee John M. Tierney because Mr. Sturges' first wife, Estelle Mudge Godfrey Sturges Daugherty, had gotten a Mexican divorce which "isn't worth a last year's bird nest." Sued. By Richard Wayne, onetime cinemactor: Mrs. Antoinette Converse Wayne, Iowa steel & banking heiress; for $300,000 advance allowance under a contract by which Mrs. Wayne agreed to pay Mr. Wayne $1,000 a month to quit the cinema and live with her; in Manhattan. Mrs. Wayne's countersuit to void the contract was denied...