Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth, however, less firmly impressed upon the mind of the average student is that in costume he must be as Britannic as possible. The statement that a decent coat cannot be cut out of London frequently produces an excellent effect; the exhibition of a large number of samples, chiefly of bright paid patterns, makes a deep impression upon the outer world. The idea that a garment has crossed the ocean gives it a prestige not attainable by other means; and, in speaking of one's winter wardrobe, it is much better, to say "I'm going to send a line...
...Phantom of the Opera.* Shrewd, Director Laemmle let it be rumored that his film would encourage recruiting in His Majesty's armies. Accordingly, when the film arrived in Southampton from Manhattan it was greeted by an escort of territorial troops and a jubilant band which accompanied it to London. Decidedly, Director Laemmle had scored a signal advertising coup...
...course when the film finally flickered in London it contained no stimulus for bashful but possible recruits. British retribution, speedy, came a few days after the premiere. The cinema was banned...
Married. Edwin Crane Wilbur, play-wright-actor, who co-starred with once-famed Cinemactress Pearl White in The Perils of Pauline; and Beatrice Edna Blinn, actress-niece of Actor Holbrook Blinn; in London. Actress Blinn is Actor Wilbur's third wife. His second, Suzanne Caubet, a niece of the late Sarah Bernhardt, divorced...
Moissi has played in Shaw and Hauptmann, Chekhov, Pirandello, Shakespeare and Euripides. He has played in Paris, Petrograd, London, Budapest and the littlest villages in Austria. In Moscow, he played in German while the rest of the cast spoke Russian. He lives on a hill near Vienna with his wife, Actress Johanna Terwin, who is also in the Redemption cast...