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...Land of Opportunity a place where one seemed to divide one's time between lying in bed in a cheap hotel, counting squashed insects on the ceiling, and sitting on park benches, hungry. This U. S. appeared to have two bright spots, however, in the persons of an actor and actress who were quite fond of each other and of him. They were very considerate people. When the actress took him to sing and play the piano for his supper at George S. Kaufman's, she made sure that Mr. Kaufman also paid the cab fare...
...spite of makeup which gives her eyelids a furry look and her old tendency to read her more dramatic lines as though she were giving a schoolroom recital of Elektra, Actress Fontanne manages to be conspicuously charming in a role which is not a paragon of lucidity. Actor Lunt is at all times expertly droll, although his parts in The Guardsman and Reunion In Vienna appear to have permanently endowed him with a Central European accent. Actor Coward, particularly when he is imitating a butler on a telephone and giving an interview to the Press, is, if possible, more suavely...
Sentenced. Film Actor Duncan Renaldo, 28 (Trader Horn, Bridge of San Luis Rey) ; to two years in Federal Penitentiary and $2,000 fine for falsifying his passport, swearing to it; in Los Angeles. Renaldo claimed Camden (N. J.) birth, the U. S. showed "overwhelming" evidence of Rumanian birth, planned deportation proceedings...
...Actor Joseph ("Joe") Jefferson (Rip Van Winkle) began his career at the age of 4 when he was dumped out of a bag on a Washington stage to do a blackface song & dance...
Died. John Carl Smith (Jack Pickford), 36, onetime film actor, younger brother of Gladys Mary Smith (Mary Pickford); of progressive multiple neuritis when it reached the brain centre; in Paris...