Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jackson Scholz, modest, shy, ambitious, hails from Springfield, Mass., is by profession a sports writer...
...personalities of Greenwich Village, or Dudley Digges and J. M. Kerrigan, actors both from the Dublin boards. Of all these, the most thoroughly of the spirit and heart of Ireland seems to me to be Padraic Colum himself, looking for all the world like an elf, the best modern writer of fairy stories in my opinion and a poet of eminence, a novelist, an essayist, a playwright...
...Lasky, taking a script of the film version of Peter Pan to show Sir James M. Barrie; Jeanne Eagels, famed actress; Mrs. Margaret Talmadge, mother of the three famed Talmadge sisters ; John Emerson, President of the Actors' Equity Association, and his wife, Anita Loos, the director and scenario writer; E. E. Fernandi, "Rockefeller of Peru"; Benjamin Winchell, Remington Typewriter President ; Edna Ferber, novelist...
...said: 'I would be willing to undertake a monster benefit performance in New York, giving all the proceeds as a nucleus of a fund to eliminate this pernicious scourge of man-kind.' " Jack Dempsey, pugilistic champion of the world: "One W. O. Mc-Geehan, New York sports writer, described my acting in the cinema. Said he: 'Mr. Dempsey does not make love with the brazenness of a Valentino. His love-making is repressed. Mr. Dempsey merely looks at the "goil." He does not manhandle her. There are no shameless petting parties in this clean and wholesome film...
...best modern writer of fairy stories...