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Leon Marie Joseph Ignace Degrelle, 30-year-old son of a French brewer who be came a naturalized Belgian citizen, first suspected that he had a talent for demagogy when he used to spellbind his fellow law students at Louvain University. Flung at his head by his enemies are the charges that he got no university degree, that he "evaded military service by falsely pleading heart disease." By 1934 he was running his own paper Rex (taking its name from Christus Rex) which, though purporting to work within the frame of the Catholic Party, offended some Catholic leaders...
...anxiety of Agent J. Van Courtland (Allen Jenkins) to get 10% of Jane's $1,500 weekly salary leads him to sign up the wrong Jane Clarke (Ruby Keeler). This Jane, neither English nor a singer, accepts the misrepresentation because it offers her an opportunity to capitalize her talent for dancing and because, though naughty, its consequences are nicer than the other two things she could do: 1) go back to school, or 2) marry an awful fellow (Comedian Hugh O'Connell...
Eddie Cantor has turned up some strange talent on his radio shows, but none is much worse than little Bobby Breen, his romantic singing youngster. Filmed in a horse-and-buggy setting in the last part of the 19th century, the film "Rainbow on the River" has all the worst features of that over-romantic age. It is so bad that during the showing everyone laughed where they should have cried, and the curtain was drawn to the tune of a chorus of hisses...
...Hearst technique of developing or buying top-flight writing talent was clearly reflected in the Examiner's roster of one-time contributors, including: Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, Mark Twain, Gertrude Atherton, Richard Harding Davis, Kathleen Norris, Charles Michelson. Developed on the Examiner were Cartoonists "Tad" Dorgan, "Bud" Fisher, Homer Davenport. The Examiner first published Edwin Markham's "The Man With the Hoe" and Staffwriter "Phinney" Thayer's "Casey at the Bat." Both were reprinted in the Examiners "Golden Jubilee Edition...
...Yardlings will find it difficult to equal the record of last year's Freshman nine with twenty victories and one tie out of twenty-one starts to its credit. The Freshmen are lacking in good pitching material and first rate infielders, but are strong in catching talent. Little can be ascertained concerning the prowess of outfielders until the team gets outdoors...