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Honored. Richard B. Harrison, Negro actor (The Lord, in The Green Pastures) ; with the Spingarn Medal for 1930, awarded for the greatest Negro accomplishment...
...Ashurst has represented Arizona in the U. S. Senate since that territory became a State in 1912. His tall sleek figure, his shiny black hair, his resounding rhetoric, his theatrical by-play with black-corded glasses have caused many an ignorant observer to mistake him for a onetime Shakespearean actor. His secret hope is to win future fame as a great diarist of the current era. Today he is the senior Senator from the Southwest...
Evelyn Laye was never called the most beautiful woman in England until she was on Broadway, New York. Like many successful contemporary stage and cinema stars, she was born of actor parents. Her parents were touring in Charley's Aunt when she made her first appearances at the age of two. As manager of the Palace Theatre in Brighton, her father wrote popular songs that never became popular and got his eleven-year-old daughter to try them out. Later Evelyn Laye toured England in musical shows. Last summer she divorced Sonny Hale, actor. She keeps slim by taking...
...ambitious gangster who becomes rich on the fruits of evil and dies in the last reel in a heroic manner. With less adroit handling Little Caesar might easily have been no more than a fair program picture and its central character merely a reflection of his many forerunners. Instead, Actor Edward G. Robinson has made his role the supreme embodiment of a type. He is helped by Mervyn Leroy's fine directing and by the fact that W. R. Burnett's story was comprehensive, telling the whole of the gangster's life. You see Little Caesar starting in business...
...Neues" had met with the whole-hearted approval of the generation for which it spoke. Still they tolerated it as sincere personal anecdote. In the book it was Erich Remarque who experienced this life and not the German soldier. But with the film the situation was different. Here an actor lived out the part symbolized by the "I" in the book. Thus in the film it was much more the German soldier than the war as related by any participator. With this in mind, then, it is not hard to understand the annoyance of anybody who experienced the War from...