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Francis Xavier Bushman, 60-year-old matinee idol, got his first good film part in 15 years-playing Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch in the forthcoming Wilson. Bushman was a feverish Romeo in Hollywood's first Shakespeare (1916), a furious Messala in Ben Hur (1923), claims to have made and spent...
...Master of the Temple Alfred Ainger. The Master's evening readings of Shakespeare were famously good and deservedly famous because he himself became so excited that he would suddenly break forth, "Pucklike, into a shadowy dance, swift, graceful, unreal." Another favorite of Alexander's, in fact his idol, was Alfred Lord Tennyson, who did nothing more spectacular than to walk and smoke with his publisher the meanwhile booming aloud his new poem...
...performing in Mexico. One of them is Fermin Espinosa, called Armillita, now 33, who has killed some 2,000 bulls since he was 16. The other is Silverio Perez, 27, a daring matador who deliberately risks death every time he faces a bull and who last year was the idol of aficionados...
...Thousand Quid. Few fans bother with such details as the greyhounds' fancy names. An exception is the current idol, Blackwater Cutlet, a small, black 61-pounder from Wimbledon, who gets fan mail. Before races the Cutlet parades with haughty superiority in front of cheering stands who class him with famed Mick the Miller, now immortal and stuffed at Government expense, and Ballynennan Moon, now standing at stud at the record...
...state and to the caste. Many an observer has guessed that on the eve of Germany's defeat the caste may betray Hitler, pick a Junker-perhaps Manstein-to play the Teutonic Petain. For, despite defeat and despair, the German burgher of today has no greater military idol than Manstein...