Word: cinemactor
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...play that they pushed perambulators after him over five miles of gently undulating Devonshire. British golf critics agreed that his swing was good and his manners, though slightly formal, better than those of most U. S. players. Perhaps because he took it all a bit grimly, however, Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks did not win. A good sport, he conceded a one-yard putt on the last green which gave hole and match to his able opponent, one J. R. Abercrombie. Then he hurried off to meet Mary Pickford who was just arriving in England...
...Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin refused to participate in a command benefit vaudeville performance before H. M. King George V, sent the vaudeville manager a check for $1,000 instead. Shocked at this apparent affront to Royalty, the London Daily Express sent a reporter down to interview Mr. Chaplin at Juan-Les-Pins, France. The interview: "What's all this nonsense? . . . I received no command from the King, but merely a request from the music hall manager, named Black, to appear in a charity show. . . . Europe has bullied, misunderstood and misinterpreted me. I don't care a hang whether...
...were: King George of England (subacute bronchitis); ex-Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi of Japan (second operation to relieve condition caused by shooting?TIME, Nov. 24); Mrs. Ida Young, mother of Owen D. Young, who hastened from Phoenix, Ariz, to her side (skull-fracture sustained in a fall downstairs) ; Cinemactor Harold Lloyd (appendectomy) ; Publisher William Howard Gannett of Augusta, Me. (hip-fracture from slipping on a gravel road); one-time Brewer Jacob ("Jake") Ruppert, owner of the New York American League baseball team (bronchitis, acute); Novelist James Joyce (waning eyesight, necessitating a third operation); Singer Mary Garden (bronchitis...
Died. Tom Santschi, 50, hulking, fighting cinemactor (The Spoilers, The Hell Cat, Three Bad Men); of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Famed was his battle with oldtime Actor William Farnum? in The Spoilers; but their attempt to duplicate it last February in Ten Nights in a Bar Room (TIME, March 9) was a pathetic shambles...
...Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey last week faced charges that they have conspired to create a monopoly. Plaintiff in the suit, and asking for $1.040,000 damages, was Miller Brothers 101 Ranch show group. Alleged monopolistic acts: defacement of plaintiff's advertising, spreading of malicious rumors, the enticement of Cinemactor Tom Mix away from Miller Bros, to Sells-Floto at $12,000 per week...