Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME [May 10] erred in dubbing smart, capable Fanchon Simon as "cinema's only woman producer." At least four other ladies have been or are producing pictures. Pioneer feminine filmaker was Lois Weber. Frances Marion, celebrated scenariowriter, is the latest recruit. Others include Dorothy Davenport (Mrs. Wallace Reid) and the youngest and most prolific, Fanchon Royer, who manages five growing children and her own independent production company, Fanchon Royer Features...
Miss Royer (formerly Mrs. Raymond Cannon and Mrs. Jack Gallagher) was a dancer, pressagent, and actors' representative before she began producing pictures in 1927 (she was 25 then). She has since made approximately 30 pictures and is the only woman producer who owns and runs her own company, producing and financing her action-adventure pictures. Often confused in the past with Stage-Production Fanchon, now that the latter has entered pictures, Film's Fanchon Royer anticipates more confusion...
...generations the English common-law notion that a husband & wife are one legal entity has colored U. S. law. Last week New York State sliced this doctrine, made it law effective Sept. 1 that "a married woman has a right of action against her husband for his wrongful or tortuous acts resulting to her in any personal injury . . . or resulting in injury to her property, as if they were unmarried, and she is liable to her husband for her wrongful or tortuous acts...
First sale on opening day was made by Dame Laura Knight, first woman ever to be on the Academy's selection committee, a famed painter of circus scenes. Dominating most of one wall in a main gallery was her massive canvas called London Palladium showing an unprepossessing young woman in evening dress watching the Crazy Gang, well known London vaudeville team, from a stage box. Manager Gerald Black of the Palladium snapped it up for $6,000 to embellish his lobby...
...crossed on foot and each apparently had been first in "one way or another. Sprinter Donald Bryant was first man across. Esther & Ann Bullard were first twins. Carmen & Minnie Perez were first skaters. Florentine Calegari was first on stilts. A Scottie was first dog. Police rushed to aid one woman staggering along with her tongue out. She was only becoming first across with tongue out. Two postmen took their lunch hour to be first mail-carriers across. Other firsts: the man who pushed a pill box with his nose, the girl who walked the chalk line in the centre...