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...Lost Lady will not give the U. S. public a favorable impression of Willa Gather. Adapted from one of the few authentic masterpieces in U. S. fiction, it is a collection of stock situations which resemble neither the original nor anything else, except previous Hollywood false alarms. Worst shot: Barbara Stanwyck gardening in high heels...
...Coat and Glove (RKO). A married woman (Barbara Robbins) visits a young artist's flat, carelessly leaves her beret behindc Her lawyer-husband (Ricardo Cortez) goes to the flat, finds there the artist's discarded mistress (Dorothy Burgess), tries unsuccessfully to prevent her from shooting herself, departs without noticing that he has left his glove on the floor. The hat, the glove and the overcoat on which his mistress expires are introduced as evidence when the artist (John Beal) is tried for her murder. His attorney is the husband of the lady who owns the beret...
Died. Marie Dressier (Leila Koerber), 64, cinemactress; of uremia complicated by cancer; in Santa Barbara. Canadian-born, she went on the stage when she was 5, played a profusion of light roles climaxed in 1910 by the lead in Tittle's 'Nightmare in which she sang "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl." Thereafter she appeared in cinemas with Charlie Chaplin (Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tillie's Tomato Surprise). After the War she found herself unable to get engagements, tried futilely to make money in Florida real estate. When she was 60, almost penniless, she scored an overnight hit as "Marthy...
...artistic; 3) because of this incompatibility she had suffered mental cruelty. Her doctor confirmed the state of her health and her mental suffering. Eugene D. Flaherty, a family friend, told about her husband's long absences away from the McAdoo yellow stucco house, overlooking the Pacific at Santa Barbara. A private property settlement supposedly giving her real estate and $6,000 a year was approved by the court. By 4:30 p. m. the McAdoo marriage had been legally and finally dissolved and Mrs. McAdoo again became Eleanor Randolph Wilson...
...their hands on the Whitney estate, heirs had to pay state taxes of $9,513,000. Principal beneficiaries were his widow Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; his daughters (Mrs. Flora Whitney Miller and Mrs. Barbara Whitney Henry); his son Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney who got the largest share and is currently active in aviation, technicolor movies and other businesses...