Word: cinemae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In a recent issue of TIME in your Cinema column you print, "Those who knew Adolphe Menjou when he was a waiter in a Cleveland chop house. . . ." If facts are of any interest to your valuable publication I shall be very happy to furnish a complete history of my life. Although I have followed a number of professions, I have up to the present never been a waiter in real life...
TIME erred. The father of Original Subscriber Menjou was the owner of a Cleveland chop house on Prospect Street, famed for its beer; young Adolphe, home from Cornell University, helped in the management, greeted customers, but donned no waiter's costume. Yet, Adolphe Menjou, by his cinema roles, has done more than any man alive to glorify the profession of waiters, both plain and head. . . . With the exception of two brilliant scenes, Mr. Menjou's recent films have not been up to the high standards of his earlier ones (such as A Woman of Paris). Let Mr. Menjou...
...vision?though even now Promoter Crandall is wall-eyed and wears glasses. Once able to see, Promoter Crandall lost no time in carving a career for himself. He worked in a store, became a reporter for the Tri-State News Bureau, sold cinemas to exhibitors, became the manager of several cinema stars (Theda Bara, Clara Kimball Young, Irene Castle, Lew Cody...
...Ditrichstein, 63, famed Hungarian-born actor (Trilby), playwright (The Great Lover) ; in Auersperg, Austria; of heart disease. Less than four years ago retired from the U. S. stage, sold his U. S. possessions, spoke loudly on the deplorable condition of the U. S. theatre, deplorable invasion of the cinema, and the deplorable tempo of U. S. life, then sailed for Europe forever...
...Napoleon and Bismarck fame now tries his hand at a more dangerously familiar story-that of Jesus, Son of Man. Unadorned with the glittering paradoxes of Kenan's Vie, free from the sensationalism of Barbusse and the sentimentalism of Papini, clear of the pathos of the recent cinema version, Ludwig's is a popular, but none the less scholarly, interpretation. His indefatigable passion for historical records and documentary scraps immerses him in contemporary Latin and Greek commentaries, but chiefly in the self-contradictory New Testament records which seem to him logical enough if arranged psychologically. The avowed object...