HONOURS FOR ACTORS
A WRITER'S CYNICISM " The cinema is becoming more and more ' high-brow ' every day," says an English writer. " A few weeks ago, Harold Lloyd was asked to present several of his old films to a New York museum. Now Fred Astaire has been elected to a paragraph or so in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. " That would appear to be just about the tops " the writer adds cynically. " Short of El Brendel having his bust sculptured by Epstein, I can think of no more imposing honour to bo captured by Hollywood. " The paragraphs devoted to Astaire will be illustrated with stills from Top Hat (to the great glee of the Radio publicity department), and the new version of the Encyclopaedia in which it all appears will be on sale this spring. On thinking it all over, I see no reason why W. C. Fields should not bo invited to contribute a monograph on a few of his less orthodox shots-for the benefit of the Billiards section of tho great work."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 38 (Supplement)
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170HONOURS FOR ACTORS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 38 (Supplement)
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