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Seven years ago, Marie Dressier (born Lelia Koerber) offered to play in vaudeville for $2,000 a week, could find no takers. She was ready to give up acting to try running a hotel in Paris when Director Allan Dwan offered her a job in Hollywood. The part that made her a cinema star, as she had been a stage star 25 years before,* came later-a bit in Anna Christie. Said Cinemactress Dressier: "They make you a star and then you starve. All I want is a small part to come in and upset the plot...
...beginning of the Civil War Mathew Brady, rich and famed, with luxuriant whiskers and curly black locks, went to Abraham Lincoln and Allan Pinkerton, head of the U. S. Secret Service, and begged to be allowed to accompany the Union Army, record its deeds in action. The first news photographer gave up his comfortable studio, built a little black wagon for a traveling .dark room (nicknamed the "What-is-it?'' by inquisitive soldiers), and took the field in his own uniform, a floppy straw hat and a long linen duster...
...summary: B. U. 1935 HARVARD DORMITORY Breen, l.e. r.e., Selbert Hicks, l.t. r.t., Allan Besorosky, l.g. r.g., Cassidy Myer, c. c., Walsh, Tisdale Taylor, r.g. l.g., Newton Rachestes, r.t. l.t., Sturgis McEvoy, r.e. l.e., Page Whelton, q.b. q.b., Holmes Storer, l.h.b. r.h.b., Drimmer Kurtis, r.h.b. l.h.b., Bates Kostarelos Fitzmaurice, f.b. f.b., Chapman
...Allan M. Pope, vice president of First National Old Colony Corp., was nominated to succeed Henry T. Ferriss, president of First National Co. of St. Louis, as president of Investment Bankers Association of America...
...river and started shoving Pub lisher Bonfils into deep water. Delighted was he when his host shooed the deer away and he climbed out of the stream 45 min. later with a 7¼ Ib. trout. Publisher Bonfils had the story of the affair printed in his newspaper. Allan Henry, younger son of President Herbert Clark Hoover, who completed in June his course at Harvard's business school, sailed for a junket in Hawaii. The following lay ill: Countess Willingdon, Vicereine of India, of dengue ("breakbone") fever, at Simla; Clifford C. ("Cactus") Cravath, city judge of Leguna Beach, Calif...