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...scarehead name of Romanoff, he posed as a Fox Film Co. executive. He tipped the stewards handsomely with Editor Ross's $100, walked down the gangplank behind actress Marilyn Miller (herself an inadvertent stowaway last month on the S. S. Bremen with her new fiance, Film Actor Don Al-varado). To officials who asked for his ticket, he said he said: "My ticket? I've been asked for it twice and given it up once...
...Edward G. Robinson. Robinson makes Yates Martin what Haw Tabor very likely was-a gay, growling, vain man, dazzled and delighted by a world which, for a time, seemed made of silver. Aline MacMahon is Yates Martin's first wife; Bebe Daniels is his second. They help Actor Robinson make Silver Dollar a vivid and perceptive cinema biography in which the weakest moment is one of the truest to fact: Yates Martin strolling into his Denver Opera House when there is no one there, suffering the heart attack that causes his death...
Unlike his patron's wife, Roxy, onetime Marine, is no champion of L'Art Moderne. Last month he and ancient Actor DeWolf Hopper made a puzzled inspection tour of the theatre. They stopped before a Herculean, brushed-aluminum nude figure by William Zorach entitled The Spirit of the Dance...
...wives and none of them looked as bad as that," agreed Actor Hopper...
...Flesh (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Poor old Wallace Beery does not have a very happy time in the Cinema. He is too ugly to be a hero, too lumbering to be a comedian, too much of a numbskull and oaf to be a villain. He is, in short, a character actor and like most character actors he usually winds up (in the parlance of the type he customarily impersonates) behind the eight-ball.* In The Champ Wallace Beery was a sad superannuated pugilist. In Flesh he is a German wrestler named Polikai, gentle, generous, an easy mark for such a slick...