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Sued. Tom Mix, onetime film actor, now a Sells Floto circusman: for $13,000 (about one week's salary), by one John Berress, Minneapolis auto dealer. Charge: Mix, drunk, pounced upon Berress, shook his fist, threatened injuries...
...Fighter Schmeling, composed and earnest, is helped through his scenes by considerate direction; he is more convincing when amorous than during a tedious fight with a gargantuan opponent in which both cock their punches for the camera. The stage fights of one-time Champion Jack Dempsey, experienced vaudevillian and actor, with Estelle Taylor Dempsey, in the Manhattan play The Big Fight, were more realistic than this picture, but Dempsey acted on the whole more self-consciously than Schmeling. Well-read, interested in painting, the German takes seriously this chance at artistic expression and holds his end up well...
...that hour London is well into its day's work and Sir Harry is the British Consul-General in New York. More than 40 years ago he was a dashing captain of the Irish fusiliers. More than 30 years ago he was an actor of Shakespeare in London's famed Haymarket theatre. Nine years ago he crossed the retiring line for members of the British Civil Service, but not until last week, after two special extensions of his appointment, was he ordered definitely to withdraw at the close of the year. He has been the grand old man of foreign...
Journey's End, most successful of recent War plays, was revived last week in Manhattan with a cast recruited from U. S. and Canadian road companies. Critics found the show still convincing but missed the deft mumming, of the original troupe. Only actor who set out to create a character for himself: Richard Bird as Captain Stanhope...
...called Actor Edward Hugh Sothern "a pink-toed high-hatter" (TIME, March...