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John Q. Dohp's real name is David Oliver. A crack cameraman who has cranked for Universal and other companies for 18 years, David Oliver has also been an energetic parlor mimic. When his friends told him he belonged in pictures, he modestly denied it. His unpremeditated debut on the screen took place when Universal editors decided its sweepstakes newsreel needed the shot of a loser as a closing touch. Cameraman Oliver remembered that he held a worthless ticket, volunteered to act the role. It was good enough to call for an Easter encore. Last week, after sizing...
...have anything to say. . . . In addition he had the gift of poetry--define it if you can. And, to close the account, he had learned the trade or art or craft of bringing plays to pass, or, in other words, of representing life and thought in action in a mimic world. That is all there is to Shakspere. It is simple enough to tell, but not so easy...
...playing in a Manchester stock company when Collaborators Gow & Greenwood found her. They selected her because she looked good in shorts and had the Lancashire accent necessary for the part of Sally Hardcastle. They got more than they bargained for because it was soon apparent that Wendy Hiller possessed mimic assets rare among seasoned actresses. Like Katharine Cornell, she has the trick of inflecting her voice in several keys. She handles her body with the articulate abandon of Elisabeth Bergner, who looks good in shorts, too. The Hillers, well-to-do Manchester cotton people, were opposed to Wendy...
...Rome's great squares by 30,000 Fascist boys of sub-military age. Trained since early childhood to handle Army rifles, they blazed away with blanks last week, also fired full size artillery pieces from which sheets of flame leaped six feet into the air until the mimic battle reeked of smoke. "Make of your souls well-sharpened daggers!" The Dictator told his boys...
...ensuing mimic struggle of 500,000 Italians was pitched in Il Duce's characteristic vein of irony. His "Reds" succeeded in keeping the King's "Blues" from invading the Fascist Kingdom...