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...Elsie Mackay, 34, daughter of a peer, has done daring things since childhood. Unimpressed by her father's millions (Peninsular & Oriental Steamship Co.), she eloped with Capt. Dennis Wyndham (before the War, an actor) and laughed at disinheritance. She went on the stage herself and on the screen, as Poppy Wyndham. Suddenly she had her marriage annuled and returned to her father's home. As suddenly she took up flying, won her pilot's license five years ago, and nourished the determination to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic...
Died. William Henry Crane, 82, well-loved actor, star of David Harum, The Senator, Business is Business and many another U. S. comedy, president emeritus of the Maskers Club; in Hollywood, Calif...
...play boy, the smart aleck-sometimes in baseball uniform (Slide, Kelly, Slide), sometimes in football paddings (Brown of Harvard), sometimes in the pants of a leather neck (Tell It To the Marines) or even dressed as a cadet (West Point). This time he is a polo grandstand player. Here Actor Haines, rich man's son. flirts with Constance Howard, presses undesired kisses on her, steals her slippers at a dance, throws his shoes in the soup at a Park Avenue dinner party, salts and eats the carnations. None the less, this objectionable young man has a mount...
...foster but the spirit of peace. Thirdly, there is our attitude toward religious films. I may say that we would not have passed The King of Kings. The producer, probably surmising as much, did not submit it. The chief objection would have been against the idea of an actor impersonating the Founder of Christianity...
...villain and murderer, one Crown, hitherto ably impersonated by Jack Carter, will henceforth be impersonated by Paul Robeson, famed Negro singer and actor. Several songs deleted from Crown's role will be put back for Mr. Robeson to sing...