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...Like Actor Cagney's previous impersonations, this one has a quality of effortless authenticity. It is not exactly acting? no one could be taught to say "bhointt up" as Cagney says it without being raised in sight of Brooklyn Bridge?but it is funny. Warner Brothers may have underpaid Actor Cagney but they have always given him good dialog. His comment after listening to a piano recital: "That guy has a great left 'hand." After bickering for two months (TIME, May 9) about his $1.600 weekly salary which he considered outrageously low, Cinemactor Cagney was last fortnight said to have...
...Hoover, 41 years White House usher (whose "consideration of others is unfailing"). Other nominees: Novelist Benjamin Kittredge; Artist Olin Dows soft-drawling Lawyer Frank Lyon Polk, Wilsonian Undersecretary of State; Lawyer George Woodward Wickersham; Justice Harlan Fiske Stone; Actor George Arliss...
...other horses that went to the post, twelve were at odds of 50 or 100 to 1 and only five had any substantial backing. They were Lord Rosebery's Miracle, the Aga Khan's Dastur, Cockpen, Hesperus, and April the Fifth, owned by an actor-manager named Tom Walls. Tom Walls had bought April the Fifth-named for its birthday, which was also Actor Walls's-as a yearling for 200 guineas. Last week he told all his friends to bet on April the Fifth, promised his cinema company at Elstree a week's holiday...
There was a loud cheer as Owner Walls, who trains his own horses and motors to-Epsom every night so that he can live near his stables, led April the Fifth into the winner's circle. Said Owner Walls, a one-time jockey, then a policeman, locomotive engineer, actor, playwright and master of hounds: "I am glad to have lived for this . . . for once I'm the hero of a drama instead of a farce. . . ." He went to the Royal box, was congratulated by King George...
Married. Selena Royle, daughter of Playwright Edwin Milton Royle, actress (Peer Gynt, her father's Launcelot & Elaine}; and Earle Larimore, Theatre Guild actor (Mourning Becomes Electra); in Manhattan...