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Died. Fritz Williams, 64, oldtime actor (Berkeley Square, Rain, The Makropoulos Secret); in Manhattan; of heart disease brought on by indigestion; while talking to friends at the Lambs' Club, of which he was Shepherd (president...
Because it employs a distinctive brand of free-and-easy journalism, Variety frequently gets into trouble, is often sued. This happened again fortnight ago, this time after a French lawsuit. The paper was fined 1,000 francs ($39.22), ordered to give 150,000 francs ($5,882.35) to Actor Pierre Meyer. The court had found that Variety had reported that the only reason Actor Meyer was appearing in the Palace Music Hall Revue in Paris was because his wife had financed the show. In addition, slow-spoken, big-nosed Editor Sime Silverman was sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment...
...worm or a weed. Those who went early enough saw a Miss Doris Humphreys perform an interpretive dance (to violin accompaniment) on $1,000 worth of turf, heard a Miss Frances Johnson recite an Ode to Spring, applauded while Mr. Mei Lan-fang. China's greatest actor (TIME, Feb. 24). accepted a tulip bulb named in his honor...
...Devil's Plum Tree in Los Angeles, Emil Jannings asked her to make a picture with him. She is married to Ralph Forbes, an English actor. She is 5 ft. 2 in. tall, was born on Christmas...
...laid a very ostentatious hand upon him at surprisingly frequent intervals. The fact that one got a slightly muddled impression of the character of the Cardinal; not being sure whether he was an absolute institutionalist, or verging perhaps on sentimentality was a fault of the author rather than the actor...