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Died. James Walter Spalding, 75, co-founder in 1876 with his brother, the late Albert G. Spalding, then a famed baseball pitcher, of the sporting goods firm of A. G. Spalding & Bros.; its board chairman and onetime president; father of Violinist Albert Spalding and Vice President H. Boardman Spalding of the Spalding company; of heart disease; at Monmouth Beach, N. J. For 30 years he spent his winters in Florence, Italy, where he guaranteed the symphony orchestra. Last year he was awarded the cross of St. Maurice & St. Lazarus by the Italian Government. In 1905 he lost his left...
Returned to Manhattan just in time for the premiere of Five Star Final (see below), Jack L. Warner, Warner Bros, vice president in charge of production, announced that Warner Bros, had established a new studio at Teddington, Middlesex, England and planned to make 15 English and twelve French pictures there in the next year. Definitely scheduled for the Teddington Studio was George Arliss' next picture...
Dancer Ann Pennington started suit for $100.000 against Lever Bros. Co. ("Lux" soap) and J. Walter Thompson Co. (advertising) for exploiting her age in an advertisement, thus: "I really am 39 years old. I never mind telling my age. As long as a woman doesn't look old, I don't see why birthdays should worry her. . . ." In Who's Who in the Theatre, dimple-kneed Dancer Pennington states that she was born...
Then Sir Robert Kindersley went to Paris and more stories began. Sir Robert is a director of the Bank of England and of the French banking firm of Lazard Bros. & Co., Ltd., in London. Was he going to Paris to beg aid from the French for the proudest bank in the world? Scot MacDonald, about to leave Berlin for London, attempted to deny the rumor...
Night Nurse (Warner Bros.) is the kind of story that can be told most effectively in the cinema-a loosely constructed narrative, more informative than fictional until it veers into murder mystery for the purpose of a climax. The most interesting part of the picture is the beginning, in which Barbara Stanwyck puts on a nurse's uniform, repulses the advances of an interne, makes friends with a flip little blonde nurse, treats a bootlegger's bullet wound without putting the case on record and faints after watching someone die on the operating table. It is when...