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...Moines, visiting Iowa's Governor Clyde LaVerne Herring with their father, Curtis Bean Dall, Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") and Curtis Roosevelt ("Buzzie") Dall asked their host to help them do a trick. Governor Herring thrust his hand through the hinge crack of an open door, had a large glass of water placed between his fingers. Unable to pull his hand out without dropping the glass, Governor Herring held it for several minutes while the Dall children whooped & hollered with delight. Then the Governor's 5-year-old grandson took the glass from his flustered grandfather...
This week Paramount will release Cecil B. DeMille's The Crusades; RKO will exhibit Alice Adams, starring Katharine Hepburn. Within the next month will appear Greta Garbo in Anna Karenina, Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers in Top Hat, Will Rogers in Steamboat Round the Bend, Marion Davies in Page Miss Glory. Last week the first "superspecial" picture of the new season enjoyed its premiere in Manhattan. This-advertised on billboards all over the U. S. for the past two months, starring Jean Harlow, Clark Gable & Wallace Beery, produced at a cost...
...that its English producers fell down badly in the matter of sound recording and partly to the mistake of its U. S. director, J. Walter Ruben, in his apparent supposition that lethargic pace was the proper cinema equivalent of Author Hergesheimer's peculiar prose style. As Taou Yuen, Anna May Wong, who last year appeared in an English screen version of Chu Chin Chow, gives a performance so admirable that it may serve to remind Hollywood producers that it is high time she returned for good...
...Bruno Richard Hauptmann has sat in the death house of the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton. Convicted of murdering Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the German carpenter from The Bronx has busied himself writing his autobiography. Twenty-three times has he been visited by his loyal, horse-faced wife Anna, who, affecting more modish dress since the Flemington trial, has traveled 6,000 miles, collected $8,300 for her husband's defense. Towheaded Baby Mannfried, an occasional visitor to his father's cell in Flemington, has not been admitted to the death house. Hauptmann's chief counsel...
...Drunk," mighty, hawk-eyed, 6 ft. 2 in., drifted down to Texas in time for the trouble with Mexico. Santa Anna drenched The Alamo in its defenders' blood, put the Government and people of the new Republic into panic. Commander-in-Chief Sam Houston yelled, "Remember The Alamo" and raised an army out of the ground. In 15 minutes at San Jacinto he wiped out Santa Anna's far larger force, losing only six of his own men. Worshiping Texans gave the hero two terms as president, sent him to the U. S. Senate when Texas joined...