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...Novelist Gouverneur Morris (The Man Who Played God) and his wife Ruth appeared in the Los Angeles District Attorney's office when the case of their jobless friend Reid Russell's suicide was re-opened at the request of the deceased's mother. Under questioning, Mrs. Morris confessed that, on the advice of oldtime Cinemactress Lila Lee, she had burned a suicide note left by Reid. Still unexplained were such questions as: why Russell's body lay unfound in the Morris' lawn swing for twelve hours; why no bullet was found; whether the shot that...
East of Java (Universal). An ex-gangster named Red Bowers (Charles Bickford) becomes a leader of men when cast ashore on an island off East Africa together with the crew, passengers and cargo, mostly lions, of the tramp steamer Sea Dragon. East of Java was adapted from Gouverneur Morris' Tiger Island by able Screenwriter James Creelman, and regardless of its minor sins against credulity it has a reckless tempo and a tendency for killing off its cast, unusual and charming as a contrast to the current prissy mode of photographing people who sit around on sofas talking imitation Philip...
...soap manufacturer, Michael Winburn (Omega, Cadum). So far as could be learned, the $390,000 contents of Mme Renard's jewel case are either lost in the Congo or stolen by some ignorant black. In Paris last week undertakers mended the seven mangled bodies. This week M. Le Gouverneur General will lie in state with his wife and airmen...
...Gouverneur Morris Phelps Jr., son of a well-known Manhattan physician, stood at the rail with his father and stepmother. Plainly visible were the shore lights across the stormy waters. Dr. Phelps turned to his wife and said: "Katharine, that light over there must be Scotland Lisht and that one over there must be Ambrose. That means that the beach over there must be less than seven miles away. I think, dear, our one chance is to go over and try to make the beach on our own. Will you come?" Mrs. Phelps smiled through her tears and nodded. Then...
...decline. Alarmed, Secretary of the Treasury Woodin declared in Washington that the U. S. Delegation could not have agreed in London to even tentative dollar stabilization. This restored uncertainty-a bull point in WalI Street-and prices firmed. But in London the fury of Frenchmen knew no bounds. Le Gouverneur, they thought, had tricked the Conference to win his Monetary Chairmanship...