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...Hutton, granddaughter of the late Cereal Tycoon Charles William Post; in Manhattan. The 1930 marriage was declared invalid by Referee John M. Tierney because Mr. Sturges' first wife, Estelle Mudge Godfrey Sturges Daugherty, had gotten a Mexican divorce which "isn't worth a last year's bird nest." Sued. By Richard Wayne, onetime cinemactor: Mrs. Antoinette Converse Wayne, Iowa steel & banking heiress; for $300,000 advance allowance under a contract by which Mrs. Wayne agreed to pay Mr. Wayne $1,000 a month to quit the cinema and live with her; in Manhattan. Mrs. Wayne...
...tall, powerful man with a shock of black hair shot with grey. He was born in Fort Smith, Ark. in 1876, the year of the Custer Massacre. Before he was old enough to enter a saloon he struck out for Nevada. In Winnemucca he learned faro, poker, bird-cage and 21. He was soon called "The Boy Gambler" and banked his own faro. He was in Goldfield during the 1906 boom, made a million dollars in mining stocks. His contemporaries in those days included the late Tex Rickard, who was running a gambling hall, and Charles Victor Bob, engineer-promoter...
...other picture at the University, called "Bird of Paradise", is just an other story of a Princeton boy going active in the South Seas and the arms of Doleres Del Rto. Joel McCrea and the chieftain's daughter run off in their B. V. D.'s and an outboard came to build houses and pick cocoa nuts on a private little Island. Paradise becomes promptly Lost through the intervention of Mount Pelee and the young lady's tribe. Mr. McCrea succeeds in straddling the smoking chasm which opens up beneath his fact, and trusty American fides prevent them from becoming...
...Manhattan, to comfort his only son, widowed Patrolman Joseph McReddy bought a canary to replace the son's pet Chip which had died while the son was at school. The new bird escaped out the window. Father McReddy rushed to the tenement house roof, fell off the fire escape. When son McReddy came home he found his father dead as well as his canary...
...eyes of Peter Giachino, a gunner of Raymboultown, Mich., popped one day last week when he took out the innards of a partridge he had shot. Coiled in the bird's gullet, still showing signs of life but with its head firmly imbedded in the bird's gizzard, was a 15-in. grass snake. Gunner Giachino put the innards with snake attached, on show in a jar of alcohol in the window of the Reilly Picture Shop at Laurium. ¶ Omen of a cold winter: partridges' legs are heavily feathered this year...