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Sweepings is worthwhile for Lionel Barrymore's full-length portrait of a tight-lipped tycoon and for a smaller but equally perfect study by Gregory Ratoff of the tycoon's jealous but sympathetic underling. Husband of Eugenie Leontovich, a well-known actress in Moscow before the War who acted in Manhattan choruses until Grand Hotel made her famous, Gregory Ratoff's success in the U. S. came a little later than his wife's but with equal suddenness. He was the producer in Once in a Lifetime; his appalling Russo-Semitic accent was what brought...
...elected to the U. S. Senate and served in Washington for 30 years by the time his wife explains to their children about the secrets. It cannot be said that Secrets is a powerful picture or a thoughtful one, but it is a graceful romantic narrative in the current full-length fashion, remarkable because Mary Pickford acts so well, still looks so pretty. Some idea of Mary Pickford's career can be suggested by remembering that she had been a cinema star for five years before Adolph Zukor in 1914 acquired her services, which started him on the road...
Three years ago Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History commissioned no life-sized figures from Sculptress Hoffman to illustrate all the principal racial types of mankind for the museum's Chauncey Keep Hall of Living Man. Twenty-five of the figures will be full-length bronzes, the remainder heads and busts. With her husband. Violinist Samuel Bonarios Grimson as manager and chief photographer, and with a case full of notes and suggestions from British Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, 42-year...
After his 1930 re-election Governor Roosevelt got out and humped himself for the national nomination. Typical were his activities during June 1931: 1) attendance at the Governors' Conference at French Lick, Ind. where he worked into a non-partisan speech a full-length campaign platform which stole the headlines; 2) a stop-over in Ohio, "Mother of Presidents," to see Governor White, James Middleton Cox and the local Democratic bosses; 3) a trip to Manchester, Mass, to call on Col. Edward Mandell House whose support he enlisted. In July he appeared at the Charlottesville (Va.) Institute of Public...
General Ashburn picked a meeting of the Mississippi Valley Association at St. Louis later in the week to make a full-length reply. Excerpts...