Word: lews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many cameras searching out strange races of the world has ever caught one in the process of creating its legends, yet it is easy for people who have never seen any Maoris to believe that these in The Devil's Pit are not modern but ancient men. Producer Lew Collins took a year photographing them in New Zealand. Flabby Maoris desperately fight with sticks and spears, standing face to face in the Japanese manner, all because one chief's son has killed his rival for the hand of another's daughter. The story is simple enough...
...Interesting for prehistoric Indian traces, present Indians, pueblos, Spanish conquest, somnolescence, artists, cemetery, old Governor's Palace (now a museum), scenery of Ben Hur (which the late Governor Lew Wallace wrote), turquoise and silver jewelry, September Indian fiesta, hospitality...
...confessing that "doubles" had sung and talked for certain performers: for Richard Barthelmess (Weary River), one Frank Withers; for Louise Brooks (The Canary Murder Case), one Margaret Livingston. ¶ In Beverly Hills Mabel Normand, sick with tuberculosis, was not told, for fear that she would worry, that her husband, Lew Cody, was also ill. In a San Bernardino health resort Cody, in bed with a nervous breakdown following influenza, was kept ignorant, for a similar reason, that there was anything the matter with his wife...
...Hinds, 84, of Portland, Me., inventor and onetime manufacturer of toilet preparations (Hinds Honey & Almond Cream, etc.) now made by Lehn & Fink Products Co. of Manhattan; of pneumonia; aboard the S.S. Samaria, in the Mediterranean. Mr. Hinds was once clerk in a Portland drug store where, later, Cinemactor Lew Cody jerked sodas...
...York American) listed the extra-studio businesses of various stars: John Gilbert, Antonio Moreno, Thomas Meighan-financing real estate developments; Mary Pickford- banking; Karl Dane-raising chickens; Chester Conklin-raising turkeys; Bessie Love-dairy farming; Lon Chaney-part-ownership in a plumbing company; Constance Talmadge-manufacturing cold cream; Lew Cody-automobile agency and part-ownership in a barber shop; Conrad Nagel and Jack Holt-stockyards at Fresno, Calif.; Renee Adorée-French restaurant...