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...blood that is spilled in it seems scarcely as thick as water. Ablest members of the cast are the orientals-Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa, who has not made a picture in Hollywood since 1921. After disbanding the company he had formed to make pictures featuring himself, Cinemactor Hayakawa acted in English and French cinemas, wrote a novel, played a brief dramatization of it in vaudeville. For the last year he has been acting in Japan-an unprecedented feat since Japanese stage tradition required that an actor come from a family of actors, and the father of Sessue Hayakawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 31, 1931 | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

Seeking Separation. Mrs. Grace Mackay Tibbett, 34, from Lawrence Tibbett, 34, Metropolitan Opera and concert baritone, cinemactor (New Moon, Prodigal). Married in 1919 after a courtship that began when they were both students at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School, they are the parents of twin 11-year-olds, Lawrence Mackay & Richard Ivan. Said she: "Fame and family happiness are not consistent. It is not anything more than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 3, 1931 | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

Married. Grace Moore, 28, Metropolitan Opera soprano, cinemactress (New Moon); and Valentine Parara, 32, Spanish cinemactor; at Cannes, France. Some of the spectators: Arturo Toscanini, Lady Milford Haven, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Mr. & Mrs. Michael Arlen, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Maurice Dekobra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 27, 1931 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

Seeking Divorce. Ina Claire, 38, cinema and stage actress (The Royal Family of Broadway, Rebound); from Cinemactor John Gilbert, 33. Charge: mental cruelty. One of his alleged cruelties: calling her "a woman of too much intellect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 27, 1931 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...indulges her fondness for elaborate aviaries and collecting fountain pens. She-Wolf, is her first cinema; in it her loyal secretary Lillian Harmer plays the part of Hetty Green's servant. Der Grosse Tenor (UFA). Possibly his panoramic countenance and the slow elaboration of detail to which Cinemactor Emil Jannings is addicted have helped to convince critics that his characterizations are more searching than they really are. Nonetheless, he often contrives to take a banal situation-in this case that of an opera singer who loses his voice-and make apparent the underlying values which have caused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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