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...civil servant? Is it necessary or advisable to deprive a man of his inalienable rights on the doubtful grounds that he works for the government? Mr. Wallace Sayre of the New York Civil Service Commission, who treats of the question at some length, heartily condemns this incipient tendency to "gag" the government employee...
...sophomore days of Fascism, a favorite gag in the U. S. was the one about Il Duce warning his little King: "Emmanuel, if you don't behave yourself I'll take your papa's picture off the olive-oil tins." Not the least significant of the incredible and terrible events of last week was that this gag should come true-in another land of another King. The Germans removed the likeness of King Haakon from all tins of the little sardines which Norwegians call brislings. To a seagoing fisherfolk, brislings were a symbol...
...screenwriting, for which he received as much as $3,500 a week, $40,000 a script. He reached Hollywood from West Terre Haute, Ind. 27 years ago, with 50? in his pocket and experience as coal miner and sign painter. As extra, prop boy, sign and scenery painter, gag man, director, producer, he grew up fabulously with the fabulous movie business...
Then Grover Jones became a gag man. "And I sat there all day watching Gilbert Pratt direct these two comics trying to get into a dancing school. And that was the usual routine of comedies in those days. Incidentally, the girl who was dancing was the girl who became my wife, and is now my wife. So I sat there and watched him, and I made a suggestion. I said, 'Wouldn't it be funny if one of those comics hid in that suit of armor in the hallway?' Gilbert Pratt looked at me and said...
...after he announced his "final" walkout on Wife Elaine Barrie, John Barrymore pulled himself together, joined newshawks and gawkers in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Occasion: publicity gag for his forthcoming self-burlesque. The Great Profile. For years big-time filmfolk have documented Grauman's forecourt with their hand and footprints. It remained for Barrymore to lend his famous profile to the wet concrete (by way of plaster cast), oblige pressmen by pretending to put his face in it. Heckled by unsatisfied photographers, he dipped his classic nose, a timid cheek, more of the profile when...