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...sheer adversity entitles an actor to the title of trouper, Hugh O'Connell is a trouper of the Eagle Scout class. As a child he was sent West from New York with a trainload of other orphans. It was O'Connell's good fortune to be adopted by an affectionate couple in Kaukauna, Wis. His foster mother was as stage-struck as he, and when he had not earned his way into the Opera House by sticking up posters for a touring troupe, she usually could lay hands on a half-dollar to buy them both gallery...
Nearly all of those whom Hollywood has made famous have at one time or another appeared before the public as the "most distinguished actor on the American screen." George Arliss is one of the few who deserve the title. Even if he had never triumphed so notably in "Disraeli" and "Voltaire," his performance in "The House of Rothschild" would entitle him to a place in the dramatic Hall of Fame...
Among the miscellaneous single choices are those of psychiatrist, grocer, actor, philosopher, and concert singer...
...career is more remarkable than Mr. Gerry's. It began as a choir boy in Providence. It went on as a musicomedian with his wife Ray Dooley. It continued as a playwright (Sally, Irene & Mary, Honeymoon Lane). It cut over into the movies, first as an actor, then as producer. And it returned to Broadway last January when he produced Big Hearted Herbert. He has also penetrated political high places. Last autumn when President Roosevelt saw the screen version of Buried Alive, Producer Dowling dined at the White House. It was not Mr. Dowling's first food...
...left, but at the right, is Actor Sidney Blackmer. Most likely guess as to identity of the person misnamed Blackmer: Cinemactor George Meeker...