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Sued for Divorce. Paul Robeson, 34, Negro baritone, actor and athlete; by Eslanda Goode Robeson; in Manhattan. Reason: "ennui." Grounds: infidelity. Actor Robeson admitted he hoped to marry an English society woman, denied it was Negrophile Lady Nancy Cunard.
In Bolivar, N. Y. 400 quarts of nitroglycerin exploded, shook the countryside. American Glycerine Co. waited nervously for reports of damage done. None came until Mrs. A. D. Peckham sued for damages because the blast had jiggled the eggs on which her 30 canaries were setting, ruined the hatch.
When the Graf Zeppelin made her first flight from Germany to the U. S. in 1928 Hearst correspondents had exclusive right to send news despatches en route. North American Newspaper Alliance's Berlin agent arranged with a passenger, Robert Reiner, Manhattan businessman, for descriptions of the flight which he...
Sued. Helen Hayes MacArthur, actress (The Good Fairy), wife of Playwright Charles MacArthur (The Front Page, Lulu Belle) by Playwright Mac Arthur's first wife, Carol Frink MacArthur, cinema critic of the Chicago Herald & Examiner; for $100,000. Charge: alienation of Playwright MacArthurs affections.
To have an accounting of his late father's estate authorized, John Pierpont Morgan, trustee, sued John Pierpont Morgan, executor.