Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tiny Tim in last season's Christmas Carol, and who functions in quadruplicate as a four-generation student of Mr. Chips. He is under long-term contract to MGM, which hopes to make him a second Freddie Bartholomew. The other is Greer Garson, who makes an impressive cinema debut as the short-lived Mrs. Chips...
Green-eyed, redheaded, Irish-born Greer Garson travelled 12,000 miles for her first cinema role. Hired by Louis B. Mayer after he saw her on the London stage, hustled to Hollywood, she was tested for a role in Dramatic School, instead spent her time in California having an appendectomy and weathering a siege of influenza. The flu proved lucky, since Dramatic School was a flop. MGM's present plans for her, barring illness, are, first, a part in Susan and God, then the lead in Myron Brinig's May Flavin...
Robert Marcus Burgunder Jr. was generally regarded by those who knew him as a model young man. He was smart. He was well-behaved. During school vacations he worked in the Wrest Coast harvest fields, drove a tractor on a cinema studio lot, organized magazine sales crews. Robert's father is a respected lawyer in Seattle, a onetime prosecuting attorney. Robert followed each one of his father's criminal cases with intense interest, spotting in each case the malefactor's errors which led to detection and capture. Mr. Burgunder was somewhat puzzled by this queer absorption...
Divorced. Wallace Fitzgerald Beery, teary, leery cinema plug-ugly; by his second wife, Mary Arieta Gilman Beery (his first: Gloria Swanson); in Carson City, Nev. Grounds: cruelty...
...they had big plans for expansion. But Wall Street and the world of aviation was more interested in how two up-from-the-ranks pilots financed the purchase of the 70,000 shares Lehman Bros, sold them. Jack Frye refused to tell. Rumors dwelt on Millionaire Howard Hughes and Cinema Agent Leland Hayward, who last month became a T. W. A. director...