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...Boston Evening Transcript, also gave a large gathering of biographical clippings several years ago, to which he makes additions from time to time, and it is expected that he will also keep contributing to his latest donation. Edgett has written a life of Edward Louis Davenport, noted actor of the Seventies, and collaborated with John Bouve Clapp on "Plays of the Present...
...Actor Menjou makes "son of a ?" sound even more opprobrious and gutter-snipish than the term sounded in the mouth of Osgood Perkins who created the managing editor's part in the Broadway Front Page of onetime Chicago Newshawks Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Items more impolite than any which have previously appeared in cinema are faithfully reproduced from the play's stage version. The scene, which changes rarely through the picture, is the press room of a "Mythical Kingdom's" criminal courts building. Eight reporters are gathered to report the execution of a murderer. Hildy Johnson, the reporter...
...Farge as designer of most of the buildings in the Bronx Zoo and of New York's subway kiosks. His two lank sons, both contributors to the family exhibition, are Christopher, known as "Kipper," and Oliver, known as "Ink." Kipper is an architect, likewise an able amateur actor. Ink is an ethnologist, .knows a vast deal about the Amerindians, was author of last year's Pulitzer Prize novel, Laughing...
...unusual intellectual distinction, Mr. Lane had more than the wide scholarship necessary for his profession. He was an expert botanist, a gifted painter, and a remarkably fine reader and actor. That he should have found time for these things in addition to his important life work is a tribute to his extraordinary versatility and to the vitality of his interests. The loss of a man who has contributed so much to the University in so many ways will be keenly felt...
Married. Richard Bird, British actor* (on Broadway, Havoc, Candida, The Fanatics); and his longtime friend Joyce Barbour, British actress (on Broadway, Havoc, Sky-High, Present Arms); in London...