Word: cineman
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...morning last week Chairman Reed Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee, distressingly fatigued after months of tariff-writing, was marched to the front portico of the Capitol by a dictatorial movietone cameraman. He was instructed to make a speech on the Hawley-Smoot (tariff) bill. For an audience the cineman commandeered Senator William Edgar Borah, hastening by to the barber shop for a much-needed haircut. Senator Smoot extolled his bill. Senator Borah looked glum. When the speech ceased Senator Borah turned, walked away. Cried the cineman, no student of tariff politics...
William Fox, cineman, was hurrying out Long Island to keep golf appointment with Cinemen Adolph Zukor (Par-amount-Famous-Lasky) and Nicholas Schenck (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), and Cinemactor Thomas Meighan, when his Rolls-Royce collided with a car driven by a Miss Dorothy Kane, overturned, killed the Fox chauffeur, injured Cineman Fox badly. A blood transfusion (one pint) was administered...
...comes partly from antique city horses, but also from wild horses which roam the western plains. Most famed Wild-Horse-Catcher is one Carl Skelton, who last week was conducting a great wild horse round-up along the Missouri River in Cascade County, Montana. Catcher Skelton is a onetime cineman who supported Cinemactor Buck Jones in pictures professionally known as "Westerns." He is also remembered by attendants at the Dempsey-Gibbons fight (TIME, July 16, 1923) in Shelby, Mont., as the man who won first prize at the accompanying rodeo. With his five helpers, he has already this season rounded...
Pale, sharp-featured, Cineman Fox plasters his thin hair over his head to make it reach as far as possible. With a similar objective, but with greater success, he has recently expanded with purchase after purchase his enormous business organization. Born in Tulchva, Hungary, in 1879, he came, a small boy, to Manhattan's East Side, there peddled shoe polish which his father made over the family stove. Later, he sponged pants, coats in a Manhattan tailoring shop. Still later he cut out cloak and suit patterns for $17 a week. Twenty-five years ago, when feature pictures were...
...however. Not only were the camera men there and the cinemen, but so were the "talkie" men. These protested that Mr. President had not spoken loudly enough to be "heard" by the sound-sight machinery that was to reproduce the little scene for distribution throughout the land. Moreover a cineman came scurrying along late. "I have been sick," he said and begged Mr. President to repose...