Actors Clubs Flourish in Cinema City
Hollywood thrives with five actors clubs where veteran stage actors rehearse for film and TV while debating the old days. The Masquers club, the oldest founded in 1925, counts 450 male members including Coburn and O Brien. Descriptions note benefit shows led by John Ford and nostalgia fueled by photos of the Floradora Girls.
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Aline Mosby
Hollywood
Eac
John Ford
Gregory Peck
John Wayne
Ward Band
Broadway
Lambs’ Club
Ned Sparks
Warner Baxter
Charles Coburn
Pat O’briens
Hollywood Boulevard
Mack Sennett
Andy Clyde
Sid Fields
Troopers’ Club
William Farnum
Frankie Bailey
Eva Fanguay
O’brien
Coburn
Masquers Club Traditions Of Dignified Revels And Toasts
Members recall the Masquers keeping ritual drink rituals for deceased colleagues and toasting together. The London bartender persona appears in memory as part of the club’s social rites. Once staged large public revels, highlighting a tradition of sisterly camaraderie and theatrical gatherings.
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Masquers
London
The Wonderful Urge and Other Films at Local Theaters
The listings show showtimes for Paramount and State venues including That Wonderful Urge and Love from a Stranger, plus Borrowed Trouble and The Time of Your Life. Other titles include The Walking Dead, Tarzan's New York Adventure, Grapes of Wrath, Christmas Eve, and When a Girl's Beautiful.
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Uate
Iowa
Texas
New York
Marion
Lulu Belle
Hollywood clubs and wartime detentions mix in news
A fragmented report notes Hollywood actors clubs like the Friars and Troopers shaping social life with exclusive venues and rituals while two American women, Carol Hackett Cocking and Constance Cole, are detained by Russian soldiers in Vienna after photographing a Soviet occupied building.
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Vienna
Army Department
United States
Carol Hackett Cocking
Constance Cole
Nuernberg
Acme
Soviet Kommandatura
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Ingrid
Jig Inui
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Aso Bond
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Gene Lockh
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Cecil Kellaway
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ERS
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George Brent
Friars
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New York Friars
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Frank Sinatra
al Jolson
Bing Crosby
Dominoe Club
Jimmy Gleason
Cecil B. Dee Mille
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Hollywood Guild
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Wayne Morris
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William
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Hopalong Gassidy
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KR Creek
Manhattan
Get Well
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Aren Fayen, Gabardine and
peplin + Bay
Younter
Wlen
Moen
Brown
Harry
Arctics
Converse Rubber Co
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