Word: cinemactor
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...crowd of Viennese, welcoming Emil Tannings, German cinemactor, to their city, tore off his necktie, ripped the buttons from his clothing, trampled, kicked, mauled him. Although he was able to appear on crutches at a radio station, his two attending physicians ordered him to bed for five days to recuperate from sprains, contusions...
...Grand Duchess, father of her child. When the hostile nobility banded against him he saved the Grand Duchess by sacrificing his infant son, inviting death for himself. "The Patriot" (Der Patriot) is the story from which was taken the famed cinema of the same name (in which Cinemactor Emil Jannings played the mad Emperor Paul). It is the story of Count Fahlen, cold and cynical military governor of St. Petersburg, who played a complicated conspirator's game against his mad master, and apologized with his death. The cinema was good, the story is better...
Noah Beery, sturdy cinemactor, underwent an appendectomy in Hollywood...
Tommy Armour, Detroit professional golfer, onetime (1927) U. S. Open Champion, played 18 holes in 59 strokes and won an invitation tournament over Cinemactor Harold Lloyd's miniature golf course, at Beverly Hills, Calif. The course is difficult for amateurs, the holes criss-cross each other and an artificial, pump-driven stream. Other features of the Harold Lloyd estate: an oldtime English barbecue, complete with kitchen, shelter and roasting pit; a swimming pool; four tennis courts; twelve handball courts; a miniature four-room house for Daughter Gloria...
White Flame. The hapless heroine of this play pines for years while the man whom she loves has a ghastly time with two marriages. He is a purblind fellow, played by Kenneth Harlan (onetime cinemactor), who does not appreciate her allure until she saves him from death at the hands of a dope fiend. Just why he should love her then is problematical. The little child of his first wife enters to assist the final curtain...