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...annual dinner of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles last week, Lionel Barrymore, last year voted best actor, read the list of prize-winners...
Best performance by an actor: Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde...
...symbolize the Academy's approval. At the University of Wisconsin he was football manager and a member of the track team. When he was graduated in 1920, he went to work in a Manhattan bank. David Belasco gave him a part in Debonair that autumn; he has been an actor ever since. His resemblance to John Barrymore helped him in Hollywood; his first really important picture was The Royal Family of Broadway. In Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde he writhed and gibbered in a role that John Barrymore created in a silent picture ten years before. His real name is Frederick...
...this week from New York to Seattle, is Mrs. Louise Vallejo D'Emparan, 91, only living daughter of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, prominent in California's Mexi can regime (ended 1846) and founder of Santa Rosa, Calif., whence the ship's name. Strong, silent, homely Film Actor Gary Cooper asked the New York Supreme Court for an injunction restraining Sheffield Farms Co. (dairy products) from further circulation of an advertisement bearing his name and picture. He claimed damage to his reputation because he was represented as drinking milk "to build up his health and strength...
...salary to match, it will be a most extraordinary turn of events. His appeal is essentially neither sentimental nor simian. In an era when Hollywood's other successful matinee idols either beat their women or sing to them, he personifies grace, intelligence, poise, wit. Son of a British actor, Herbert Marshall fitted himself, at St. Mary's College, to be an articled clerk. He did so poorly at it that he was forced to go on the stage. Just before the War he played with Cyril Maude in Grumpy. Herbert Marshall has divided his time between the stages of London...