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...Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, of a slight cerebral thrombosis, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Chairman Aiming S. Prall of the Federal Communications Commission, of an ailment his son refused to name, in Boothbay Harbor, Me.; U. S. Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham, after a severe chill, in London; Actor William Powell, of nervous and physical exhaustion resulting from grief over the death of Jean Harlow, in Hollywood; Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio, 74, recovering rapidly from what he called "disturbances of old age," in Brescia, Italy; Federal Judge Florence Ellinwood Allen, of a fractured ankle suffered while trout fishing...
Most pretentious summer repertory will be presented by the Pasadena Community Playhouse. The Playhouse was founded by oldtime Actor Gilmor Brown 19 years ago. This year the Legislature bestowed on it the title of "The State Theatre of California" (but no subsidy). To signalize this honor, Founder Brown had for months been bustling about his office full of goldfish, canaries and tiny turtles, arranging an imposing sequence of seven plays, which began June 28, called "The Story of the Southwest." Five of the plays are old: Gerhart Hauptmann's Montezuma, Maxwell Anderson's Night Over Taos, Franz Werfel...
...LAUGHTON. British actor (The Private Life of Henry VIII, Rembrandt), has all his earnings in Hollywood assigned to his British holding company which pays him a salary of $20,000 a year. His earnings were some $190,000 in 1935 and although his British holding company paid a tax to the U. S. he had a considerable tax saving. Said Mr. Irey: "The conduct of Mr. Laughton in this instance may be perfectly legal. The case however is cited as another illustration...
...Miss Harlow, read from the Psalms and from Science & Health by Mary Baker Eddy (Nelson Eddy is no kin), recited the Lord's Prayer and a trenchant 48-word eulogy. The body was then taken to a $25,000 mortuary chamber purchased by William Powell, the inconsolable actor who was to have become Miss Harlow's fourth husband. Thus was concluded another notable interment at the institution which Promoter Hubert Eaton has made as indispensable to Hollywood's great dead as a footprint in the cement at Sid Grauman's Chinese Theatre is to its living...
Adopted. By Cinemactress Loretta Young: James (three years) and Judy (23 months), two children she first saw when decorating a tree last Christmas at a Los Angeles Catholic orphanage. Three years ago she had her marriage to Actor Grant Withers annulled...