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Carolina (Fox). Into this screen version of Paul Green's House of Connelly Director Henry King has put some taste, more thought and much work. With four cameramen, an art director, an architect and Scenarist Reginald Berkeley, he spent six weeks in North and South Carolina last summer collecting local color. Out of 40,000 feet of film shot on this hunt for atmosphere less than 500 got into the finished work. Tobacco markets near Millin, S. C., cigaret factories at Winston-Salem...
...from downtown Washington. At night CWA men climbed trees, scaled roofs, went after the birds. Result was that the starlings fled for sanctuary to the Capitol. Flocks of them darkened the dome, settled on window ledges, twittered, committed nuisances until Congressmen could no longer bear them. David Lynn, Capitol architect, was assigned to drive them off. He rigged a series of automobile horns around the building, blew them all periodically by pressing a button. When he pressed, the starlings took flight. When he stopped they alighted. Then he sent men with toy balloons on long strings to frighten the starlings...
Married. Alma Morgenthau Wertheim, daughter of onetime U. S. Ambassador to Turkey Henry ("Uncle Henry") Morgenthau, sister of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.; and Paul Lester Wiener, Manhattan architect; in Manhattan...
...Colonel Joseph A. Marmon, 58, commander of the 6th Infantry, U. S. A.; in Scarsdale, N. Y. An elaborate military welcome was arranged at Governors Island, Colonel Marmon's post. It was his first marriage. Miss Frederick's fifth. Her previous husbands: Frank M. Andrews, Manhattan architect (divorced); Willard Mack, famed actor-playwright (divorced); Dr. Charles Rutherford, Seattle doctor (divorced); Hugh Chisholm Leighton, Los Angeles hotelman who obtained an annulment on charges of fraud and non-consummation...
...Honoré de Balzac's. His slowly growing super-novel, Men of Good Will, is being built to specifications to contain a whole city - 20th Century Paris. Goggling onlookers, seeing the size of the completed foundations, may now have some idea of the extent of the building, but Architect Romains, though he admits his construction will cover a lot of ground, still refuses to post his blueprints or release a front elevation. Before putting down tools for this section he thanks spectators for their patient interest, promises that from now on the stories will go faster...