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Word: mojeska (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself been in the show business for 30 years, first in a singing stock company in Colorado Springs, then as a legit-actor touring the Middle West in comedy, tragedy and operetta, and subsequently as wardrobe man, property man, chorus man, transportation agent, scenery-shifter (for Mansfield, Mojeska, Mantell), tourist guide, interior decorator, before his first cinema appearance as an extra in a wild west two-reeler. His face had been smeared with pie in many slapsticks when a director selected it to be a crook-cripple's in The Miracle Man. Alonzo Chaney's present salary, kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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