Word: cinemactor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contest for the title of "proudest small town in America," judges awarded the prize to Cadiz, Ohio (pop., 2,597). Reason: it "has had more citizens of wide renown than any other community under ten thousand population." Some famed Cadizians: Critic Percy Hammond, Cinemactor Clark Gable, Robert P., Charles S. and Thomas A. Scott, inventors of ''the peach parer, the pea viner and the pea podder...
...Born. To Cinemactor Boris Karloff (in Frankenstein, the Monster; in real life, Charles Edward Pratt), 51, and his wife: a daughter, their first child; in Hollywood...
...cause of this wholesale bonanza is a single star: Gene Autry. Though most cinemaddicts in big cities have never seen him on the screen and never heard of him, Gene Autry is not only by far the most famed performer in modern "westerns" but quite possibly the most popular cinemactor in the world...
Married. Albert Davis Lasker, 58, principal owner and former president of the Lord & Thomas advertising agency, co-founder of the University of Chicago's Lasker Foundation for Medical Research; and Doris Kenyon Sills Hopkins, 41, onetime cinemactress (Monsieur Beaucaire), concert singer, widow of the late Cinemactor Milton Sills; he for the second, she for the third time; in Manhattan. Fortnight before, Adman Lasker had been proposed as head of a committee to regulate Hollywood Producers' conduct (TIME...
...There Goes My Heart (TIME, Oct. 10), one of the principals was an erratic subway motorman who took mail-order lessons in chiropractic, practiced on his wife. Last week the American Bureau of Chiropractic sued Producer Hal Roach, Cinemactor Alan Mowbray, Writers Eddie Moran, Jack Jevne and Ed Sullivan for $100,000, for ridiculing the profession...