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Sued for Divorce. Lucien Muratore, 49, onetime actor with Réjane and Bernhardt, more recently famed as tenor of the Chicago Grand Opera Association; by Lina Cavalieri Chanler Muratore, 53, opera singer, in Paris. In 1912 she divorced Robert Winthrop Chanler, grandson of John Jacob Astor; he was supposed to have given her a large part of his fortune, which brought from his brother, John Armstrong Chanler, who had changed his name to Chaloner due to a difference with his family over his sanity, a now famed telegram: "Who's looney now?" In 1914 she married Lucien Muratore...
...Flesh (Emil Jannings). Not Samuel Butler's famed novel but Perley Poore Sheehan's little-known story supplies the framework of the great German actor's first U. S.-made film.* It concerns one August Schiller, who flourished in Milwaukee back in the days when gentlemen associated that town with beer, and when ladies carried muffs. The first half of the film shows him a pillar of society, plain, foursquare, sunk in a large family. A doting father of six, a pompous cashier in his bank, a champion bowler, he is admirable in all things, full...
...Other films in which Emil Jannings has appeared : The Last, Laugh, Siegfried, Variety, Faust, †A previous cinema example : the De Mille picture : The Ten Commandments- * Actor Charles Emmet Mack was killed in an automobile accident in Hollywood while driving to the studio to be filmed in this picture...
...York Telegram, onetime (1924) dramatic critic of TIME the weekly newsmagazine, ascended the stage of the Guild Theatre after the first act of the Monday performance of The Second Man, made a speech, presented two prizes. They were gold plaques awarded by the Morning Telegraph (New York) to the actor and actress who, in the opinions of Manhattan daily newspaper critics, gave the best performances of the year. The winners: Miss Pauline Lord for her work in Sandalwood, Mariners; Alfred Lunt, for his work in Juarez and Maximilian, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Second Man. Actresses honorably mentioned...
...interest by his plan for the electrification of the entire country under one mammoth system for all railroads, street cars, factories, farms and houses. Died. Jerome Klapka Jerome, 68, famed author and humorist; at Northampton, England; of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was progressively, from 14 years on, office clerk, actor, author, editor; wrote Three Men in a Boat, Passing of the Third Floor Back, Wood Barrow Farm, etc. Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Hope, Richard le Gallienne, who liked him, wrote for his periodicals...