Word: cinemactresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gunman, hijacker, was found in a midtown gutter. He was suspected of killing Tony Lombardo, one-time head of Chicago's Unione Siciliano. Gangster Marco was shot seven times, his head hacked with a meat cleaver. His wife Yvonne, once married to Crooner Harry Richman (onetime suitor of Cinemactress Clara Bow), disappeared when police stupidly notified her by telephone of Gangster Marco's demise. ¶Three armed robbers entered a 5th Avenue jeweler's office, took $8,000 worth of diamonds, then, frightened, fled precipitately. An alarm brought 100 policemen and detectives to surround the building...
Sentenced. Daisy de Boe, pilfering secretary to Cinemactress Clara Bow (TIME, Jan. 26. Feb. 2); to five years probation, of which 18 months are to be spent...
Died. Mrs. Lucy ("Aunt Lucy") Stewart Knox, 93, grandmother of Cinemactress Anita Stewart; in Brooklyn, N. Y. A friend of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, she hid him lin her Brooklyn house in 1875 after he had been found guilty of colossal thieveries from the New York municipal government and sentenced to twelve years imprisonment. By her aid he eluded vigilant watchers, escaped to Cuba on his yacht...
...Hollywood studio of Cinecomedian Buster Keaton, husband of Sister Natalie Talmadge, went onetime Cinemactress Kathleen Key. They squabbled over money matters. Soon Miss Key was dragged screaming from the room by two policemen. Keaton, with a bruised and abraded face, told flocking newshawks: "She completely wrecked my dressing-room! She clawed me and scratched and tore my clothes! She manhandled me something awful...
...Beaton are apparently chosen for their news value, ranging from angular Margot Asquith, homely Poetess Edith Sitwell (posed as a corpse, clutching a bunch of lilies) and Novelist Virginia Woolf (who protested in the London Spectator at being Beatonified without permission) to such obvious subjects as Dancer Tilly Losch, Cinemactress Marion Davies, and Photographer Beaton's two pretty sisters, Baba and Nancy, London debutantes...