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...settlements (his present wife is No. 5), but he never made a better one. Edie Gwynn's scatterbrained manner, quick bursts of nervous laughter and lavishly indiscriminate endearments ("lambie pie, beautiful cookie") hide a razor-sharp nose for news. She has established herself as the mother confessor for Cinemaland, but it is other people's sins the penitents usually confess. Edith's column is the Reporter's biggest selling point...
...Biography"--Avon, 45th Street W.--Ina Claire back from cinemaland cast as the mistress of great men. Thoroughly entertaining and witty...
...news-article entitled: The Coming Out Party, dealing with the life and works of Al Capone, omits one news-note. Among the people who saw him before he left the "pen" was his lawyer: U. S. Congressman Benjamin M. Colder, a son-in-law of Mastbaum, late satrap of cinemaland in Philadelphia...
Damn Your Honor was conceived by Bayard Veiller, a tireless practitioner of the grapeshot-&-canister style of playwriting, and Becky Gardiner, recruited from the heroic reaches of cinemaland. It has a piratical hero named La Tour (John Halliday), a high-born heroine named Cydalyse (Jessie Royce Landis), five settings by Lee Simonson depicting various splendid aspects of Colonial New Orleans. When the buccaneer has gained the heart and boudoir of the Governor's wife and that overbearing villain has been duly cuckolded, there occurs what bids fair to be recalled as a line-of-the-season. La Tour discovers...
Artist Decker had been commissioned to do a Cruze portrait. Long a caricaturist, he tried to impart significant character rather than flattering graces to the canvas. Sensing something prisoned about Director Cruze-perhaps the restriction of raw, vital Cruze talents by the commercial requirements of cinemaland-he painted Director Cruze behind bars. Said Mr. Cruze: "I was the most surprised man in the world when I saw it. Mouth like a gargoyle, face like a frog, it made me look like an Apache or something worse. I told Decker I wouldn't accept it. I told him I wanted...
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