Word: phantom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since 1935 wealthy residents of Hollywood and its swank suburbs have been apprehensive of an unapprehended "phantom burglar." Last week in San Francisco the phantom, one Ralph R. Graham, was finally captured, readily identified the looted houses. A few of his victims: Packer George A. Hormel; Cinemactors Gary Cooper, Tyrone Power, Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard; Director Frank Capra. Complained the phantom: "All of ... the movie boys and girls whose playthings I swiped . . . except Fanny Brice exaggerated the amount of stuff taken." Estimated total loot...
Last week Dr. Coster and his crude drugs became the X and Y of a mystery-story equation. Other factors were forged Dun & Bradstreet reports, dummy trading companies, phantom warehouses, vanished inventories and missing assets...
Among Hollywood celebrities, a special niche is reserved for phantom actresses- young women who become internationally celebrated as movie stars without appearing on the screen. In this niche, Paulette Goddard's place is secure. Until last month, she had appeared in only two pictures. In the first, The Kid from Spain, she was a chorus girl. In the second, Modern Times, she did not talk. Since Modern Times she has maintained an apparently impregnable position in U. S. headlines, first as the centre of the controversy about whether or not she was married to Charlie Chaplin, then...
...phantom, Paulette Goddard is actually an amiable little brunette (5 ft. 4 in., weight no) who, born and reared in Great Neck, L. I., entered public life at twelve, as a model for children's clothes. At 16, she married Edward James, Broadwayite twice her age, whom she divorced five years later. Paulette Goddard prepared herself for her Hollywood phantom career by appearing as a chorus girl in Rio Rita. Her appearance as co-star in Dramatic School is not quite her first since Modern Times. She also made an effective talkie debut in The Young in Heart...
More distinguished than any of her performances thus far as a mere working actress was Paulette Goddard's farewell performance as a phantom actress. Last winter, after breaking one of her nails, which were almost an inch long, she went about Palm Beach with her finger in a sling...