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Engaged. John Gilbert, film actor; and Virginia Bruce, his leading lady in Downstairs (now in production). Cinemactor Gilbert may not wed until his divorce from his third wife, Ina Claire, becomes final...
Married. Joseph Schildkraut, 34, Austrian-born U. S. film actor; and Lilian Mary McKay, 22, of London; in Vienna. The bride said Actor Schildkraut proposed on a trip to Niagara Falls...
Director Clair keeps his characters, action and dialog as natural and human as possible. But the settings, the story, the mood of the direction, are stylized to achieve a dream quality. Director Clair uses anonymities for his leads; Actor Raymond Cordy was a taxi-driver a year ago. Admiration for Charlie Chaplin is shown in mob scenes, chases and stampedes which follow Chaplin's principles of dance and pantomime. Director Clair, 30, was until 1926 a newspaperman whose novel, Adams, a story of Charlie Chaplin, had some success. He joined a Paris experimental art group specializing in cinema, produced...
...kidnapped child seemed no closer to success than they were on the windy night of March 1, when the baby was snatched from his New Jersey nursery. But in Washington last week another fantastic sideshow in the case was revealed. Principal in this show was a bad actor who first came to fame in the Harding era - Gaston Bullock Means...
...Actor Means, 53, a thick-necked, slackjawed, dimpled-cheeked Southerner, is the author of The Strange Death of President Harding in which it is intimated that Mrs. Harding poisoned her husband (TIME, March 31, 1930). The book was written after Means had served three years (1925-28) in Atlanta Penitentiary for bribery and violation of the Prohibition laws. Before that he had turned on his employer, onetime Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, with tall tales before a Senate Committee about the "Ohio Gang's" activities. Before the U. S. entered the War, he says, he served with the German...