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...Actor Robeson admitted he hoped to marry an English society woman, denied it was Negrophile Nancy Cunard." (TIME, July...
Love?"one great surging, longing, unmistakable urge"?came to Isadora Duncan in Budapest in springtime. She met an actor whom in her later memoirs she called "Romeo."* Out of this awakening came a dance she improvised to Franz Schubert's gentle, tripping Moment Musical. Isadora Duncan has been dead five years, but a Manhattan audience last week gave its lustiest applause to her memory when the Moment Musical was danced once more by her adopted daughter Irma...
Engaged. Ruth Chatterton, film actress; and George Brent, film actor (see p. 19). They will be married after she obtains her divorce from Ralph Forbes...
Married. Ralph De Palma, 49, automobile racing driver; and one Marian Leggett, 36; in Las Vegas, Nev. Honeymoon: seeking a job for him on Hoover Dam. Married, Sylvia ("Madame") Ulback, 51, Hollywood masseuse, author of gossipy Hollywood Undressed; and Edward Leiter, 39, actor, nephew of the late Chicago Tycoon Joseph Leiter; during a thunderstorm in Egremont, Mass. She divorced her first husband, one Andrew Ulback, secretly last fortnight in Mexico. Divorced. Ethel Catherwood McLaren, Canadian gymnast, "most beautiful woman athlete of the 1928 Olympic Games"; from James Gillan McLaren of Toronto; in Reno. Grounds: nonsupport. She intends to marry...
...Author- In 1883, into an atmosphere reeking with literary and dramatic talent, Edward Montague Compton (Mackenzie is his ancestors' clan name) was born. His father was an able actor; his aunt was "Leah" Bateman, famed Lady Macbeth; his actress sister Fay Compton still holds the boards. After Oxford he took to writing plays, finally to novel-writing. He fought in the War, was invalided out as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and O. B. E. After the War he leased from King George one of the Channel Islands, Jethou, stocked it with 10,000 books...