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HOLLYWOOD--Mae Murray, former silent screen beauty who testified her career reversed the rags to riches role, late today was granted $400 monthly support for her 15-year old son, Koran David Mdivani, from his father, Prince David Mdivani, New York...
...been tried before in the '90s. But the peep-show flickers of those days were often patchy and scratchy, and the machines usually stalled. Fred Mills was satisfied that his company could lick the machine problem with a neat projector and 18-by-24-inch mirror screen. It could show 16 or 35 mm. shorts to the U. S. cinemillions outside the movie houses, if Hollywood could provide the shorts...
Depicting the life of a great research scientist who has to fight against the formidable opposition of conservatism, "Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet" is one of screendom's finer productions. Sensitive spectators may be titillated by the screen debut of syhphilis, but the outstanding fact about this powerful picture is the truly magnificent acting of Edward G. Robinson. As Dr. Paul Ehrlich, he forsakes the tough-guy aspect for which he is famed and turns out a performance that must be considered for academy honors at the end of the year...
...During and after such dinners you must provide speeches or music. The more frugal-minded societies provide music. They can get quite a good soprano for two or three guineas plus her dinner which she eats behind a screen or in the next room (because of the stories); but if she is old and ugly your diners moodily finger their wine glasses and murmur 'Hell,' and if she is young and charming they are continually popping behind the screen to see if she's got everything she wants. In either case it's all rather distracting...
...Jack (Freddie Bartholomew) proudly displaying to his brothers (Tim Holt, Terry Kilburn) three hairs on his chest (grimly portending the shape of things to come in Master Freddie's screen career...