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Died. Henry Edward Dixey, 84, matinee idol of the 80's; of injuries in a traffic accident; in Atlantic City. The Great Profile of his day, romantic juvenile, tragedian, comic-opera star, specialty dancer, he played the title role in Adonis for a record 603 performances on Broadway...
...loudest and brashest performances of his whole career John L. Lewis this week defied the President of the U.S. All his long, pent-up hatred of Franklin Roosevelt boiling over, John Lewis, like an angry, ranting, old-style tragedian, flatly rejected requests made in the name of his country...
...completely conceived was the stage play that its leading character, heartless, ambitious Regina Giddens, is played by Tragedian Bette Davis with scarcely an accent's difference from gruff Tallulah Bankhead's interpretation of the original Broadway role. This was not Miss Davis' idea. She quarreled with gap-toothed Director William Wyler (Jezebel, Dead End) for her own version. He-or the play-won. Result: the films' foremost dramatic actress not only acts like Tallulah but looks like...
...after he poured $500,000 into the 1936 Roosevelt campaign. Last year he arraigned the New Deal for abject domestic failure ("The nation cannot forever continue its appalling drift"). Last January he had fiercely denounced a third term. Last week he finally let himself go. Speaking like an oldtime tragedian, he let his orotund words roll out over three networks, 322 radio stations, to perhaps 25,000,000 listeners...
...flat on his back. Like a modern lace-pack beauty treatment, it consisted of a series of light, quick-drying layers that could be put on while the subject sat at his ease. Thus beplastered for posterity were Thomas Jefferson's stern idealism, the Othello glare of youthful Tragedian Edwin Forrest (Orson Welles of his day), Dolly Madison's smile, the pinched, toothless jaws of 90-year-old John Adams, many another...