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...Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, her daughter-in-law, and to her five grandchildren, Mrs. Roosevelt left one-tenth of her estate, to be divided in six equal parts. To St. James Church she gave $5,000. The rest of her estate she bequeathed "unto my beloved son, Franklin D. Roosevelt, forever...
Colman's life with Anna Lee is pure nonsense, but perfectly harmless and done in the usual smooth Colman manner. Ronald and Anna make a charming couple, and your heart is with Ronald in his efforts to keep their happy little home inviolate against all comers attracted like bees to honey-chile Anna. Father-in-law Charles Winneger maintains a respectful neutrality, and so long as his sponging concession is assured he doesn't care much who the victimized son-in-law is. Gilbert Roland (the cad) was still in the running when we left, but our bets...
...professional debut as a ballet dancer at Bar Harbor. . .Settled in her first home with globe-girdling James, Romelle Schneider Roosevelt took and passed her driver's test at Bethesda, Md. . . . In the Columbia River waters, where Franklin D. Roosevelt failed to get a nibble in 1934, daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger hooked four Royal Chinook salmon. Young grandson "Buzzie" got one. . .In Toronto at the International Typewriting Marathon, typists who copied the complete works of Shakespeare in 1939, H. G. Wells's The Outline of History in 1940, last week typed The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin...
More cinema stars than had ever turned out for any public occasion showed themselves at Los Angeles' "Moon Festival" for United China Relief, but it was silken-banged Anna May Wong who rode in the parade with Mayor Fletcher Bowron. Supporting cast of more than 100 in the charity festival included Madeleine Carroll, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney. Result: for China's sufferers, roughly...
...flying; Vittorio, not such a good flyer, only a lieutenant while Bruno, nearly two years his junior, was a captain; Edda Ciano, the girl, who had very nearly been killed by British flyers during the Balkan fight. Bruno's pretty wife Gina was also there. The other Mussolinis-Anna, Maria and Romano, mere schoolchildren-were too young for this vigil...