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Married. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 19, cinemactor; to Joan Crawford (real name Lucille Fay La Sueur), 21, cinemactress; in Manhattan. Cinemactor Fairbanks is Senior Fairbanks' son by his first wife (Beth Sully), who was only family member present at ceremony. Returned to the Hotel Algonquin Mrs. Crawford-Fairbanks wrote: "Dear Mother: It is but an hour since. . . ." Said Cinemactor Fairbanks; "Our affair was a sweet and romantic one." Too busy, they said, to honeymoon, they returned soon after the wedding to Hollywood to resume work, he with First National Pictures, she with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Neither has been married before...
...comedy of the younger generation, still draws the crowds and a curious hodge-podge of critical evaluation, from those who think its smart sophistication eminently satisfactory to those who consider it a hasty re-hash of idle chatter by the smart young New Yorkers one may find at the Algonquin. Jed Harris has two shows on view, the profane and colorful newspaper show, "Front Page" and a not entirely successful fantasy, but a play like none other now in New York, "Serena Blandish", in which Ruth Gordon, A. E. Matthews and Constance Collier depict the languid game of love...
Well, my career in the cinema went right over people's heads and became a financial failure. So I decided to become literary instead, and spent a lot of time in the ris-kay literary invirament of the Algonquin. So my gentleman friend said that I seem to be full of nothing so much as cute ideas, and the ones that are the most amuseing to the reading public are about my un-mental friend Dorothy. Because I use Psychology and understand that there are some people in the world who cannot help it if thier instincks are unnatural...
...Mass., the Stevens Manufacturing Co. and the American Printing Co. lead the way. Just before the fire last week (see p. 11) the Fall River Cotton Manufacturers' Association announced that all its members had put into effect a 10% wage cut. This included such potent firms as the Algonquin Printing Co., American Linen Co., Davis Mills, King Philip Mills, Lincoln Manufacturing Co., Sagamore Manufacturing Co., Granite Mills...
...olders. For a youthful critic to enter into a rhapsody over "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" merely because it is highly commended by those who ought to know and not because it seems to him an extremely well written book is an unfortunate example of plagiarism. The Algonquin circle may like it; the higher literati may like it; but if this particular book or any other book does not appeal to the individual young man his is the unpleasant task of exhibiting the undergraduate thumbs down. His is the privilege of citing what he as a university student does...