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...Barbara Stanwyck got three men and made them all miserable. Joan Crawford only corralled two, but then one was Harvard '06 and the other Yale '26. Perhaps it evens up. The general purport of the two features at the University is that this is no longer a man's world. They were done wrong--and they liked...
...Negro, genetics is an immediate personal concern to Dr. Wright. His complexion is light brown. Mrs. Wright, a onetime school-teacher whose mother was German, has all the appearance of a white. With keen intellectual curiosity they awaited the births of their two children. Jane, 14, is distinctly brown. Barbara, 13, looks like a little white girl. The children attend the swank, progressive Ethical Culture School...
...state in the Union. It righteously keeps Tom Mooney in jail at San Quentin, kneels prayerfully at the feet of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson in Los Angeles. California blinks its eyes from the glare of kleig lights in hysterical Hollywood, is lulled by the mission bells of Santa Barbara. Anything can happen in fabulous California. What will happen in California on Nov. 6 is an enormous question mark placed at the end of a tense and terrible political campaign which will reach its climax on Election Day. Not only will California then choose a new Governor but all the rest...
...Aquitania last week the first Mrs. Marshall Field departed quietly for Europe, financially secure with her $1,000,000-a-year settlement, domestically relieved to have her son, Marshall Field Jr., settled at Harvard, her daughters Bettine and Barbara in the Brearley School, Manhattan...
...early summer James P. ("Jimmy") Donahue, fabulously rich & prankish young Woolworth scion, thought of a good joke he could play on his cousin, fabulously rich & serious Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani. His friend Marilyn Miller got Chorusman O'Brien to let him take a part in As Thousands Cheer one night. At the proper moment, when Marilyn Miller was impersonating Barbara Hutton in a skit, ''Jimmy" Donahue minced onstage in a princely uniform, fawned over the lady's hand. No one in the audience noticed the substitution, but it was the last straw for the managers...