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That Certain Woman (First National-Warner Bros.). Warner Brothers paid $25,000 in court costs in England last fall to compel high-spirited Bette Davis to return to the fold after her rebellion against playing an uncongenial part (in God's Country and the Woman), and her demand that her salary be increased was refused. Actress Davis herself spent $18,000 opposing the action, could be made to pay the $25,000 court costs as well, since the studio has not yet executed its judgment against her for the amount...
Varsity Show (Warner Bros.). Dick Powell, Ted Healy, the Lane Sisters and Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians in a flashy musicomedy...
...such trade-names as Colman's Mustard, Huntley & Palmer's Biscuits, Jacob's Biscuits. Three families, the Cadburys, Frys and Rowntrees, made fortunes in the chocolate business. Among delegates in Philadelphia last week were Barrow Cadbury, a fox-bearded little man who was chairman of Cadbury Bros., Ltd. until five years ago, and his wife Geraldine, a Dame of the British Empire who told reporters: "I put 'D' on my cards but I wouldn't like to be called Dame." Energetic Joan Fry of the Bristol chocolate-making family was present, but B. Seebohm...
...Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus, playing Seattle, Tacoma and Aberdeen. He never failed to get a laugh when Kellams pulled him around in an old buggy and introduced him as "the mayor of Seattle...
Died. Wilbert Lewis Smith, 85, industrialist, one of the organizers of L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co., chairman of the board of L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc.; in Syracuse...