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Married. Richard Bird, British actor* (on Broadway, Havoc, Candida, The Fanatics); and his longtime friend Joyce Barbour, British actress (on Broadway, Havoc, Sky-High, Present Arms); in London...
...advertising world last week came annual prize day when the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration handed out $10,000 and a gold medal. Money and medal came from a fund established in 1923 by the late Edward William Bok of the Ladies' Home Journal, the Florida bird-sanctuary, third-person autobiography. Awards are for excellence in various aspects of advertising endeavour. Cash-winners included...
...feature, adds practically nothing but Philip Holmes to the bill. Moving with his usual youthful dignity across a background of juleps, magnolias, and better than average southern accents, the newly risen star comes to love and respect a father who had been a jail-bird. The picture is no better than it could...
Somebody was bound to start fun-poking at the late greatly ballyhooed Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Vaudevillian Fred Allen has already made Manhattan audiences laugh about it in Three's a Crowd, but Bird Life at the Pole is the first full-length parody. The story is supposed to have been told to Mr. Gibbs in a low hurried voice by Commander Christopher Robin, who was sent to the Antarctic as a news stunt by Publisher Herbst. When the expedition's ship, the Lizzie Borden, got to the Panama Canal, she was towed through by a Mr. Burton, swimming...
...always locked, its windows frosted white to guard against peepers. Within strange craft were being built: a great twin-motored plane with two adjustable wings in tandem, with no ailerons and no tail assembly; and a motorless glider of similar design. The wings were designed something like a bird's, with the trailing edge of the front wing fluted, or "feathered." Scarcely less mysterious to the inhabitants of the field was the ship's inventor, Emry Davis, 74, retired manufacturer of inkstands and inks from which he was said to have earned a fortune. Thin, white-moustached, immaculate...