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...When it was announced that I was writing the life of Carl Laemmle," says John Drinkwater, "a number of anxious critics asked, Why? . . . Wasn't that a very odd thing for the biographer of Lincoln, Lee, Byron, and the rest, to do?'' If you postpone asking this question yourself until after reading this Horatio-Algeresque biography, you may still feel like asking it?unless you think the answer is obvious. From Mr. Laemmle's point of view, of course, there was nothing "odd" about it. People hire artists to paint their portraits, don't they...
...voice of the director were painfully present. It is rather to be suspected that the average 100 per cent impure crook would be frightened out of his God-forsaken boots by the sinister innuendoes, and dark looks of this ferocious group of actors. At least, if he wasn't we were...
...were a little afraid that the procedure might be 'spooky,' but it wasn't at all," said Mortician Hoffman. "Everything was very beautiful, and there was much favorable comment afterwards...
...double-chinned & fun-loving. Unlike Alfred Emanuel Smith and his Katie, Jimmy Walker and his Janet are not inseparable companions and mates. Nevertheless, at her Miami Beach, Fla. home where she has been since December, Mrs. Walker made known that she was going back to New York? though she wasn't sure exactly when?"to stand by Jim and our guns...
Presumably Mr. Lippmann got no very great commissions out of all this. But isn't he a rich man anyway? (Or is it a rich wife?). And wasn't that, also something you omitted...