Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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with dragnet apparatus. Salvage Director arrives within 24 hours after the disaster by train and airplane from Norfolk, Va. Name: Captain Ernest J. Kind, commanding officer of the U. S. S. Wright, subordinate to Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby...
Nicholas Forzely, or Forzelli, was his real name. He was a race-track gambler, the son of a Syrian hop-seller, who seldom bet on a horse except to win. In the course of his wild career, he was often broke and more than once a millionaire. In 1923 he swaggered into New Orleans with a few dollars in his pocket and came away, after the season's racing, with $800,000. A few months later he lost his money and got pneumonia. He went to a hospital and said, "Pneumonia is easy to beat...
Capt. James Clark Ross: Six times he invaded the Arctic, then turned South and in 1842 gave his name to the Ross Sea. Fifty-eight years later, no explorer had penetrated closer to the South Pole...
...name is Olga Baklanova; her address is c/o Paramount-Famous-Players-Lasky Corp., Hollywood, Calif. Compared with her, Theda Bara and the oldtime cinema-bad-women were fudge-makers. She was born in Russia and first achieved fame in the Moscow Art Theatre. Morris Guest, shrewd, brought her to the U. S. She played the nun in the road show of The Miracle. Then the movies got her. In The Street of Sin, The Man Who Laughs and her present triumph, Forgotten Faces, she demonstrates that she is, far and away, the most voluptuous cinemactress...
...dilettante, Carroll knows a beautiful female body when he sees one, knows, too, how not to drape it, is well aware that W. C. Fields is a good box-office name, that Joe Frisco, Ray Dooley, Gordon Dooley, Dorothy Knapp, in one theatre, insure against empty seats. The Carroll formula is simple, the execution elaborate: sign stars, hire lovely female bodies to undulate across stage, buy a few "hot" sketches. Music is nonessential (there is but one worthy song, "Vaniteaser," in the show...