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...notable change has come over "Oggie" Mills since he entered the Treasury four years ago as the dictatorial, rather supercilious scion of a wealthy old family. Born 46 years ago at Newport, R. I. at the height of the social season, he inherited a background and outlook by no means favorable for a political career. His grandfather was Darius Ogden Mills who left a Buffalo bank for the 1849 gold rush, not as a prospector but as a hardheaded merchant and trader. Grandfather's first year's profit in California was $40,000. The Comstock Lode in Nevada made...
...paucity of essential facts was more than made up for to the Press by Starr Faithfull's background and home life. The family, occupying one floor of a brownstone house, consisted of Starr, her sister, her mother and stepfather, Stanley Faithfull, a not prosperous chemist and salesman for a pneumatic mattress concern. Lean, gimlet-eyed, red-whiskered, bewildered, he talked & talked to the thronging newshawks who came away with many conflicting stories and white lies. For some reason his daughter was made an "heiress" by the first sensational stories, a description soon dropped by all but the tabloids. But other...
Unhappy Wives stimulated Robert Latou Dickinson, Manhattan gynecologist, to study marital discontent. He asked 1,000 married women certain impudent questions. As women will, they answered him. The women were "what may be called the cultural type . . . urban, of good family background, married to professional men of moderate income [e. g. physicians], each with one or two children. They were considered socially normal in the ordinary relationships of work and life...
Chances (First National) is a well-photographed, well-acted cinema which uses the War as a background for romance. Chief figures are two brothers and a girl with whom both are in love. She (Rose Hobart) falls in love with the more personable of the two (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) when he is home on leave. When the other brother learns of it, he loses interest in the War and, feeling thoroughly cheated, does not greatly object to being killed. Before dying, he shakes hands with the lucky brother who, severely wounded, goes back to England and the girl. Chances might...
TIME of May 25 carries an advertisement with historical background for The Crosley Radio Corp. Josephine is represented having a little marital discussion with Napoleon about his Moscow campaign. I wasn't there with a Crosley but Marie Louise of Austria and not Josephine, was Napoleon's wife then...