Word: farnum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FARNUM First Lieut., A. C. U. S. A. Rantoul...
...horse back, are all ideal for the role, and it does not matter that his drawl is Oklahoma in stead of Connecticut. His personality and his multifarious activities have made him by this time, even to Americans, a figure symbolic of American ism. Next best part : dignified old William Farnum, the hero of many a two-fisted thriller some ten years ago, as King Arthur...
There is also the roaring command "Everybody to the bar! The drinks are on the house!" Immensely funny are the exaggerated writhings of William Farnum's conscience as the battle for his soul goes on between Little Mary and the Demon Rum. Funny is the frail barroom, which trembles as if it were about to go to pieces at the first premonition of the great fight scene. That these excellences are unintentional in no way detracts from the power of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. Yet there is pathos in it too, for William Farnum and Thomas Santschi used...
Died. Alma Rubens, 33, cinemactress (Humoresque, The Valley of Silent Men, Enemies of Women); of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Famed for her dark beauty, she married thrice (Actor Franklyn Farnum, Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman, Actor Ricardo Cortez), divorced twice. Some years ago she became addicted to narcotics, appeared seldom thereafter in the cinema. Last month she was arrested in San Diego, charged with possession of narcotics, released on $5,000 bail...