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...commander of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division in France, twice wounded, many times decorated for bravery in action; Superintendent (1919) at the U. S. Military Academy. In 1928 he was chairman of the American Olympic Games Committee. He is unmarried (his divorced wife, the onetime Mrs. Walter Brooks, is now Actor Lionel Atwill's wife...
Engaged. Jack Pickford, 33, film actor, brother of Mary Pickford Fairbanks, onetime husband (1921) of the late Olive Thomas and (1922-27) of Marilynn Miller; and Mary Mulhern. 22, onetime Ziegfeld Follies girl; at Salinas, Calif...
...visit to his chamber. Next morning have each vehemently deny, then reluctantly admit, his charge. The result: pleasant theatrical fare for a summer evening. Ladies All is a doctored U. S. version of Rumanian Prince Antoine Bibesco's Who. Musicomedian Walter Woolf, in his debut as a legitimate actor, played seductively, sinfully, the rich young bachelor. His prize: Violet Heming, the blonde sculptress...
...Antonio Latour, one of Mr. Wright's heroes, was once an actor, then retired to be the harmless reprobate of his native Midwestern small town. He had loved, but in vain, Harriet Noel?she who might have been one of the world's great actresses had it not been for her villain husband and her darling son, for whose future stage career she gladly sacrificed her own. Young son Pierre, too soon an orphan, had been brought up by old Tony to fulfill his mother's dreams...
...whether a wife commits a crime when she goes to another woman's home, where her husband has been gambling away his substance, and brings his affec- tion and property home again. Full of theatrical cliches, Lawful Larceny is enlivened by the verbal improvisations and expansive mannerisms of Actor Lowell Sherman and by the skill of Director Lowell Sherman in giving Actor Sherman due opportunities. In spite of its familiarity, it moves fast enough to be fair entertainment. Best shot: Bebe Daniels going to work as secretary to the woman who has broken up her home...