Word: cinemae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most of these cinema taxpayers were only too anxious to meet large penalty assessments rather than criminal charges. A large migration from Hollywood to the Treasury Department may be shortly anticipated...
...Cinema stars are seldom good mathematicians. Confronted with the U. S. income tax, many of them are reduced to flabby incompetence. They journey across the U. S. from Hollywood to "fix things up" personally at the Treasury Department. That grey classic building, they have found, affords a new and unusual background for "still" pictures of themselves on business bent. Last year Secretary Mellon's department had the honor of professional calls from Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Richard Barthelmess...
...Hollywood habit of turning income tax matters over to "counselors" who promise to save a taxpayer large sums provided the benefits are equitably divided, has now led to a terrifying state of affairs. Two such "counselors" for cinema folk, Miss Marjorie Berger and Edward H. Hayden, were last week indicted by a U. S. grand jury in Los Angeles on charges of preparing fraudulent tax returns for their big-salaried clients. Cinemactors and actresses quaked at the possibility of conspiracy charges...
After the ceremony, in burst some belated cameramen who demanded and obtained a second performance. Next came the cinema cameramen, and after them the movietone men. At the last, Mr. Baker protested. "There'll be no sound out of me." Secretary Good started for the door, echoing: "There'll be no sound out of me!" General Summerall agreed to reread the citation, however, and once more Mr. Baker, mum and miserable, was declared "of inestimable value...
Married. Capt. Filippi Zappi, navigator of the doomed Nobile dirigible Italia, who was rescued wearing the clothes of his dead Swedish comrade, Finn Malmgren; and one Mile. Le Coultre; in Le Sender, Switzerland. Last month in Manhattan, when a newsreel cinema showed pictures of Capt. Zappi, voices in the audience snarled: "Cannibal...