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...than 120,000 persons" passed her bier as she lay in state at Los Angeles. A crowd of 10,000 broke up the funeral when it was finally held, milled about furiously while two cordons of police vainly attempted to keep them back, burst through the police guard, knocked Bert Lytell, one of the cinema-star pallbearers, against a wheel of the hearse, sent the other pallbearers fleeing for safety. This stampede apparently resulted from the desire of numerous women to touch the silver casket of "the girl who was too beautiful to live." Five women fainted, were carried into...
...than allowing the dogs to tear all of it but the "brush" to tatters smacks of sacrilege. One of the ladies of the Union Hunt Club loudly declared that whoever the pedestrian fox hunters were they should be shot with their own rifles. Up to her stepped one Bert Batchelor, doughty wheelwright: "Those poor dogs are ours. . . . We are the Holmwood Hunt. Saving your displeasure, the Surrey Union Hunt has ridden out so seldom of late that the foxes are getting thicker and stealing our poultry and stock. We have a license to kill vermin, and we thought we might...
Lady Windermere's Fan. The difficult business of filming Oscar Wilde has been entrusted to Ernest Lubitsch with the assistance of Irene Rich, Ronald Coleman, Bert Lytell, May McAvoy. Perhaps the most exceptionally difficult task of the cinema is the transference to the screen of drawing-room comedy. Mr. Lubitsch has done it about as well as one could wish...
...first time in the history of the Copley-Plaza, three orchestras will provide the music for a single ball. "Billy" Lozzez and "Bert" Lowe will have the main burden of supplying rhythm for the dancers, the Barbary Coast Jazz band of Dartmouth playing a series of special selections for a short time only...
Coach Stevens also named two other University crews. Crew X and Y, to be considered on an equal rating. Coach Fred Newell of the 150-pound crew picked a number of lightweight crews, and Coach Bert Haines selected three-eights from his Freshman candidates...