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...Holy Hill beheld, at the gates, men bearing placards: THE HUTTER CONSTRUCTION CO. ON THIS JOB IS UNFAIR TO ORGANIZED LABOR. The pickets—union carpenters, hod carriers and common laborers from Milwaukee—wore their Sunday best, molested no one, explained they were protesting because George Hutter, Fond du Lac contractor who is building a $163,000 seminary for the Carmelites, maintains an open shop, pays low wages...
...talks about the time that Jack Hammell ran a speech in a Toronto newspaper at full advertising rates, surprising the publisher if not himself when readers unanimously acclaimed it as the best feature of the day. Another Toronto millionaire prospector is Tony Oklend, an Austrian emigrant who staked Long Lac in 1926. From his pile he bought a big house in the suburbs, hired a platoon of servants headed by a butler. When the servants arrived he called them together to announce: "I don't care what you do around here but I do the cooking...
...that the hero will appear a prude if he rejects the heroine's advances, a lecher if he welcomes them. Helped by U. S. lighting and No. 28 makeup, Simone Simon is more embraceable than in her last French picture to reach the U. S. (Lac aux Dames), but Girls' Dormitory, as first made, ended without her being in the arms of Marshall. After the Hollywood preview, 125 suggestion cards, distributed to the audience, were filled out with requests for a new ending. Present fadeout shows them kissing...
...slapped his face. Impressed, he tested her, cast her as Pierrette in Chanteur Inconnu opposite Opera Singer Lucien Muratore. She made Le Roi des Palaces for Adolphe Osso and La Petite Chocolatière for Marc Allegret, both comedy roles, got her first serious casting as elflike Puck in Lac aux Dames. Arthur Willnetz, a man ager, introduced her to Sacha Guitry, who gave her a part in O Mon Bel Inconnu. Publicized as "La Sauvage Tendre," she was mobbed by a crowd at a personal appearance in Brussels, tested by Twentieth Century-Fox, signed by Zanuck. Smart, she learned...
...regularized the Episcopal status of Rev. Dr. John William Charles Toch Torok, 45, once a Hungarian Uniat Catholic priest. Imprisoned as a political suspect during Hungary's revolution, Dr. Torok escaped to the U. S. In 1921 he became a Hungarian Orthodox archdeacon in Fond du Lac, Wis., then an Episcopal priest. In 1924 he was consecrated Bishop in Vienna, by a Czechoslovak and a Serbian Orthodox Bishop. The Episcopalians of Wisconsin elected Dr. Torok suffragan Bishop...