Word: fakes
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...praise in the cinema industry are the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. At the Academy's Annual Banquet last week, where some 1,200 guests included practically every real and fake celebrity in the business, the Academy bestowed its most publicized prize-that for the best U. S. performance of the year by an actress-upon a young woman who a year and a half ago was unknown in the U. S. and had never appeared in the cinema anywhere. She was MGM's Luise Rainer. The role for which she was rewarded...
...when on exhibition, claims to be 8 ft. 6 in. That height seems to be a favorite among sideshow giants. John G. Tarver of Alba, Tex., claims it. Clifford Thompson of Stevens Point, Wis. claims an inch more. Dr. Humberd frankly does not believe them. He insists that they fake their real heights by wearing high-heeled shoes and tall hats...
...suffered," she expressed ''suspicions" about Mr. Oursler and the Lindbergh case. Her attorney added that though Mrs. Macfadden had urged the Governor to keep these letters confidential, he nevertheless turned them over to his "good friend, Fulton Oursler," who had also obtained the supposedly palpable fake. So crowded is the New York County's Supreme Court calendar that a final, legal answer to this Macfadden muddle may not be handed down for two years or more...
...part of Stringer is kept on the jump by Ramon Greenleaf, but gains nothing beyond its writing in his performance. An admirable sketch is supplied by Arthur Barry in the part of Bittlesby, who switches from effeminate efficiency to an entertaining attitude of merrily-we-go-to-hell-the-fake-is-falling-through, singing and dancing to "The Darng Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" en route. In the end, of course, the fake does not fall through. Bittlesby is gotten by stenographer who will teach him things, and Stringer gets the girl (Louise Kirtland)--and there, gentlemen...
...District Attorney Bernard Botein. He found two widespread rackets: 1) "floppers," who fall in the street, claim to have been hit by a passing car; 2) rings, like the Hurwitz gang, which stage accidents in which driver, victim, lawyer and doctor share the boodle. New York now has the fake automobile accident racket so well in hand that last week State Superintendent of Insurance Louis Pink recommended a 7% reduction in liability rates. Simultaneously in Chicago was uncovered the most vicious and successful ambulance-chasing racket exposed to date...