Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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After an apprenticeship as a stage baby, Jackie Coogan, 4, was doing the shimmy in a vaudeville act with Annette Kellerman when Charles Chaplin, then meditating The Kid, put him on contract. After he had made 14 pictures Jackie's parents sent him to Loyola High School in Los Angeles. Now 16, he is in the junior class, weighs 95 lb., likes to wear white spats away from school. His allowance, until recently, was $20 per week when he was earning about $3,500 per week...
...street-hawker who fall in love with the prettiest girl in their neighborhood. One of them wins her in spite of complications caused by a bully-boy who gets possession of a key to her apartment. The cast is not famous (Albert Frejean, Edmond Greville, Pola Illery), but they act so well that spectators do not have to understand French to follow the story. Best shot : the singer stimulating a crowd to sing while both men peddle their music in the street...
Rubber. In 1922 the British Empire passed the famed Stevenson Act which restricted the export of rubber from British colonies. Although British exports were checked, Dutch competition grew more intense, more rubber trees matured in British territory. In 1928 the restriction was removed. Since then, "tapping holidays" have failed because of the lack of cooperation from native growers...
...dropped forks under the table and crawled after them with a flashlight, asking guests to move over, please. At last Ambassador Dawes arose, explained, introducing Errol, but some guests, unused to U. S. and New South Wales humor, failed to laugh. Offstage he looks unprepossessing. In his act he still wears the pair of Congress gaiters which he used in his first U. S. appearance...
...Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit & Skirt Manufacturers. The bank has around 400,000 depositors, 23,000 shareholders. Last week the State was busy investigating reports that the bank had sold stock to depositors at $198 a share, promised repurchase in the event of a decline, an illegal banking act...