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...working among the Arabs. For his colleagues he wrote a paper of good advice on The Art of Handling Arabs. Some of his "27 Articles": "Cling tight to your sense of humour. . . . They make no special allowances for you when you dress like them. You will be like an actor in a foreign theatre, playing a part day and night for months, without rest, and for an anxious stake. . . . Do not think from their conduct that they are careless [about religion]. Their conviction of the truth of their faith, and its share in every act and thought and principle...
...Boston Traveller and ranching in New Mexico to play one-night vaudeville stands in 1914. A quavering voice, a well-groomed mustache, a debonnaire manner brought him leading comedy parts in cinema, where many remember him best as the doctor-husband in Reunion in Vienna. Last week Actor Morgan put on his nattiest suit, gave his mustache an extra twist and became a businessman. In Manhattan he was elected vice president of a company distributing a famed concoction whose secret formula he will never know. The company: Angostura-Wuppermann. The brew: Angostura-bitters...
...Actor Morgan's real name is Francis Phillip Wuppermann. Josephine Wuppermann, his mother, is, at 82, president and treasurer of Angostura-Wuppermann, sole agents for Angostura bitters in the U. S., Canada, Mexico and Cuba. Only three persons know what Angostura is made of, and a Wuppermann is not one of them. Mr. Alfredo Galo Siegert of Trinidad, grandson of the first man ever to brew Angostura, shares his secret only with a brother and a brother-in-law. Lest something happen to ail three at once, a copy of the formula is locked in a bank vault...
Best Performance (actor): Leslie Howard in Berkeley Square, Charles Laughton in Henry the VIII, Paul Muni in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang...
Divorced. Actor & Director Kenneth Mackenna (Leo Mielziner Jr.); by Cinemactress Kay Francis, 30; in Los Angeles. It was her third divorce. Grounds: nagging, criticism of her acting, her clothes...