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Petulant and glum, last week, was the mood of famed Actor-Manager M. Sacha Guitry. Sacré bleu! Why were not more people clambering to see his Charles Lindbergh-his "heroic melodrama" in 30 scenes? What could be the matter? Had not finickiest critics praised the piece (TIME, Dec. 3.); and had not the first few audiences risen to shout "Vive Lindbergh! Vive La France...
...Manhattan & elsewhere a "talkie" adaptation of Paul Armstrong's Alias Jimmy Valentine.* It is a "sellout." But "sellout" or no, company directors last week felt that to attract more discriminating, intelligent patrons a certain silent scene would be improved by inserting the spoken words "Is that so?" The actor to speak, William Haines, was in Hollywood; the film to be improved, in Manhattan. Actor Haines spoke at a sound box; his three words were transmuted to a jiggly streak of light on a photograph film; the film sent to the Los Angeles Bell Telephone telephotograph† station; the jiggly...
Appointed. Frank Gillmore, actor, father of Actress Margalo Gillmore; to be President of the Actors' Equity Association, succeeding John Emerson, playwright, husband of Anita (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Loos...
Sophisticates of smart Berlin and worldly Hamburg have witnessed and applauded, during the past month, a modernist farce in which an actor programmed as God waddles upon the stage in plus fours, shakes cocktails for his cackling crony St. Peter, and holds hands upon a sofa with Mary Magdalene...
...days. Heink deserted her. The sheriff took everything but a bed, three chairs, a stove, the children. Finally they had to be sent to her parents. Then came engagements in Berlin, Hamburg. A temperamental contralto balked and Heink got big roles, made them bigger. She married Paul Schumann, an actor. Together in 1898 they came to the U. S. In Chicago a month before another baby, she made her debut in Lohengrin. The baby was born in Manhattan-George Washington Schumann...