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Died. Alec B. Francis, 63, oldtime stage actor, film actor since 1910; after an operation; in Hollywood. British-born, he deserted the law for which he had been educated, played in stock companies, served as a nurse in the Spanish-American War, tried farming in the Midwest, drifted into the early cinema. A pious churchman in private life, he played wise, kind, whimsical oldsters (Outward Bound, Arrowsmith, The Case of Sergeant Grischa...
...Great Flirtation (Paramount). A Hungarian actor (Adolphe Menjou), unduly proud of his ability, boasts that he could not play badly if he tried. He marries an actress (Elissa Landi), is jealous of her, sneers at her mediocre mummery. In New York, when through a ruse she has a chance to make a hit. Menjou tries to spoil the play by "mugging." His wife deserts him for a young playwright. Menjou disappears, grows nobly poor and seedy. Wobbling between comedy and sentiment, The Great Flirtation is a raised eyebrow, uncertain and unalluring. Typical shot: the last, in which Menjou and Landi...
Died. Mrs. Emma Littlefield Moore, 53, retired actress, wife of Actor Victor Moore who played "Vice President Throttlebottom" in Of Thee I Sing and Let 'Em Eat Cake; of pneumonia; in Farmingdale...
Marriage Revealed. Dorothy Rothschild Parker, 40, poetess, wit; and Alan Campbell, 26, actor; in Westbury, L. I.; in October. Seeking Divorce. Anna Roosevelt Dall, daughter of President Roosevelt; from Curtis Bean Dall; in Reno (see p. 9). Seeking Divorce. Charlotte Charlton Leonard; from University of Wisconsin Professor William Ellery Leonard, 58, poet, author (Two Lives, The Locomotive God); in Madison, Wis. Died. Charles ("Chuck") Gardiner, 29, star goaltender for the Chicago Black Hawks hockey team, three times winner of the Georges Vezina trophy for the leading goaltender of the National League; of a tumor of the brain; in Winnipeg...
...already acknowledged as a front-rank European writer. Son of a French civil servant, he went to Indo-China at 20. made an archaeological expedition to Cambodia and Siam, was not only an eyewitness of some of China's bloodiest revolutionary years (1925-27) but an actor in them. He was Commissioner of Propaganda for the revolutionary government of the South ; as a member of the Committee of Twelve he helped direct the Canton insurrection, saw plenty of hand-to-hand fighting. His story of" the Shanghai rising is a compressed and fictionalized account of what actually happened. Last...