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...worth keeping. Two years later, a Giant scout saw him pitching in Beaumont, Tex. and persuaded Manager John McGraw to hire him. In May 1929, in his ninth complete major league game, Carl Hubbell pitched a no-hit game against Pittsburgh. Lazy and solemn in action, particularly fond of a "screw-ball" which breaks sharply down and away from batters, Pitcher Hubbell thinks he has improved since then. Says he: "I have learned a lot ... and I feel stronger. It takes quite a while to learn how to pitch big-league baseball...
Marie Dressler's career as a theatrical celebrity falls into two divisions. By 1925 she had acquired the financial problems which customarily overtake actors who are too fond of their friends to save their money. When she made up her mind to start a hotel in Paris, her closest friend, a Manhattan astrologer named Nella Webb, persuaded her to wait, predicted that she would enjoy "seven fat years" beginning Jan. 17, 1927. On Jan. 17, Director Allan Dwan telephoned Marie Dressier, offered her a role in a picture he was about to make in Florida. Reluctantly-because she suspected...
...corner is the new Lying-In Hospital. Across the street at No. 5822 is a smaller greystone house on the first floor of which she lives with her sister Katherine Alden and her jolly assistant, Edith Farrar, who speaks with a strong Southern accent and is very fond of The Nation. You can tell that there are mice inside when you stand on the front stoop of No. 5825 Drexel Boulevard. But you get used to the smell. Everything is very clean. In immaculate white linen dress Dr. Slye sits behind a rolltop steel desk littered with papers. Dolly...
...days before L'Eventail, Brussels socialite weekly, had commented: "Mr. Morris on getting off the train that brought him to Brussels was seen to be carrying a violin case. Everyone noticed it and everyone was favorably impressed. This diplomat is a musician and he must be passionately fond of music to carry his violin himself. We like diplomats who are artists...
...evening meal until Fairbanks joined the Masons in 1926 and had to spend one dinner hour a week at the lodge. Warned by friends that such devotion was a mistake, Mary Pickford exclaimed: "We figure that our lives are too short as it is." In 1930 Fairbanks, fond of traveling, went globe trotting alone. Last week he wired her from London that she would have to pay for the upkeep of ''Pickfair," their Beverly Hills home. To the Press, she wept, confirmed the separation, hinted at divorce. Divorced. John Borden, 49, oil tycoon, "Millionaire Explorer"; by Courtney Letts...