Word: lons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thousand Faces (Universal-International) is the glittering trademark that Hollywood gave Lon Chaney in his day. He was also ballyhooed as a "mystery man," and the ballyhoo for once told the truth; when Actor Chaney died in 1930. the film colony mourned an enigma. Reticent and secretive, Chaney, son of two deaf-mutes, shrouded his personality, veiled his past as adroitly as he camouflaged his own features under masterful disguises (he was the Encyclopaedia Britannica's expert on movie makeup). Chaney enjoyed the respect of his own associates in the film industry, but he avoided both publicity and public...
...Lon Chaney? This movie, though taking some drastic liberties with his life, more nearly catches his spirit than any previous try at his biography. The subject was certainly no cinch. The actor liked to assure his rare interviewers: "Between pictures, there is no Lon Chaney.'' In a large sense, that was so. There was no Chaney. but there was a solitary fisherman, a bodkin-eyed amateur movie cameraman, a proficient wigmaker, a talented musician. Hollywood's hungriest reader-and always, the actor testing his disguises. One morning, got up as a Chinese laundryman, Chaney boarded...
...sense of incongruity went with the anger. No sooner had Queen Elizabeth solemnly proclaimed "a case of great emergency" than she went off to the Duke of Norfolk's box at the fashionable race meeting that traditionally winds up Lon don's social season. After cheering Sir Anthony Eden's Palmerstonian boast that the Royal Navy "will take care of" any Egyptian warships on the loose, the House of Commons, like the French Assembly, adjourned for the summer. But the urgency was real. Air Marshal Sir John Slessor, great airman turned topflight military strategist, spoke for many...
...vaulters, 3) the fastest 400-meter and no-meter hurdlers on earth, and 4) a sprinter who can run as fast as Jesse Owens. In this sudden-death competition, two other 1952 Olympic winners (Harrison Dillard and Lindy Remigino) failed even to qualify, and one world-record holder (Lon Spurrier) could only make third place...
...Welk starts each number by chanting the old-hat beat, "And a-one, and a-two and a-three . . ." He jigs in time to the music and, at least once each show, waltzes carefully around the stage with his singer, Alice Lon, looking like a man who has just successfully completed a course at Arthur Murray's. Welk twinkles a good deal and the big event of each show is when Welk harnesses himself to his $5,000 Pancordion and plays a number against the program's backdrop of champagne bubbles...