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What Emil Jannings was to the German, what Charles Laughton is to the English, Harry Baur has long been to the French cinema. As France's No. 1 character actor, however, his methods are his own. Above a body like a meal sack ap pears a face as soft as putty. On the face wriggle a corrugated nose, two eyebrows which appear to have disassociated sets of muscles. No dabbler in dilettantish restraint, Actor Baur roars like a lion, whispers like a snake, employs every known trick of the method which more inhibited actors contemptuously describe as "mugging." This...
...hardened for 22 years in practical politics. Born at Fort Madison, Iowa, he was the younger son of a lawyer father who became claims attorney for the Santa Fe Railroad at Topeka. Both parents are now dead but John Hamilton has one brother, Hale, 12 years his elder, an actor who in 1910 starred in Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, later went into the movies. John Hamilton graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1913, got his law degree from Chicago's Northwestern University three years later. Before graduation he married Laura Hall, daughter of a wealthy Kansas printer, after graduation...
...annual award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the best performance by an actor went to (1 Charles Laughton-Mutiny on the Bounty, 2 Charles Chaplin-Modern Times, 3 Leslie Howard-Petrified Forest, 4 Jean Hersholt - The Country Doctor, S Victor McLaglen-The Informer...
Dismissed on a technicality in New York Supreme Court was the suit of Actor Frank Wallace to be declared the husband of Cinemactress Mae West. Remarked Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo: "So he wants to be declared Mae West's husband? I admire...
...Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Stephenson, Arthur Treacher, Claude Rains. Miss Davies is Betsy Patterson, a belle of old Baltimore. Mr. Powell is Jerome Bonaparte, sent over to represent Napoleon at ceremonies surrounding the Louisiana Purchase. The picture is notable solely for the Rains characterization. Ham actors long to be Napoleon. Mr. Rains makes Napoleon a ham actor...