Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, informs a casting director that he has a diploma from a correspondence school of acting. His bemused enthusiasm makes his predicament sad as well as funny. Once admitted to a studio lot, he remains for two days, sleeping in property beds, eating property pork & beans. A generous extra girl (Joan Blondell) tries to befriend him but in so doing adds the last straw to Merton's misery. She gets him a job with a director who makes a burlesque "western" with Merton as the hero. He plays his role in earnest. At the preview of the picture...
...Make Me a Star, his first starring part. There are times when Erwin reads the pathos between his lines a little too vociferously but there are other times when his confident naiveté suggests a Chaplin who can talk. He makes Merton's grand gesture of presenting the extra girl with a wrist watch hilarious by the way he says: "It's a little token of my esteem and . . . it's guaranteed." Director William Beaudine had fine dialog to work with and he put in a few sharp touches of his own. The gross face...
...Taking off overweight for nearly every flight because she was invariably loaded down with extra equipment for all manner of experiments, notably: first launching of a glider from an airship; first hook-on of an airplane in flight; first radio reception of map facsimiles in flight; first test of an echo altimeter; first "narrowcasting" of voice on a light beam; tests of scores of navigation devices...
...went to Los Angeles when she was 13, attended Holly wood High School. After her sophomore year at the University of California at Los Angeles she joined the Pasadena Com munity Playhouse. When Director Clarence Brown was casting male actors for Inspiration, he asked Karen Morley, hired as an extra, to read Greta Garbo's lines. She did it well enough to get a screen test, a part in Inspiration, a long-term contract. Now approximately 22, Cinemactress Mor ley is 5 ft. 4 in., 104 lb., hazel-eyed. Her mouth is too big, her nose too sharp...
...academic circles as in others, and as one department has awarded honors to a larger number of men, others have followed suit. Requirements for distinction are flexible. Nevertheless, the figures are actually indicative of a well-marked trend towards higher scholarship. More time is now given to academic work. Extra-curricular activities--managership competitions, publications, music clubs, debating societies, and athletics have noted a decline in the emphasis given to them in undergraduate life. The tutorial system, the divisional examinations giving a central theme to the individual curriculum, and the House Plan are all indicative of a trend which...