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...admirers dubbed him "The Eagle." Meanwhile the Eagle's brood increased. Suckled in the stage wings, they have all become capable actors. Son Charles ran away from home and joined an English circus, a Russian ballet. He has played roles in Russian, Polish, French, German, English, Yiddish. Son Adolph managed George Jessel's Jazz Singer. Son Irving has appeared in minor Broadway parts, Son Jack in The Front Page. The youngest son, Luther, played this season in Street Scene and Red Rust. The only married daughter, Frances, was graduated from the American Academy of Arts, has toured with...
...Some other great lives: John Charles Martin, $6,540,000; William Fox, $6,500,000; Joseph M. Schenck, $5,025,000; Jesse L. Lasky, $5,000,000; Adolph Zukor, $5,000,000.-ED. 100 Glasses Cold Beer
Hungary. "Money, money! Give me money, Papa Zukor!" screamed a coarse-faced peasant woman in the village of Ricse last week, thrusting up a hand that half begged, half threatened at Cinema Tycoon Adolph Zukor, who with Mrs. Zukor was revisiting his Hungarian birthplace...
...Sulzberger, vice president of the Times, accepted the medal from Dr. M. Walter Williams, the school's dean who was lately elevated to be president of the university (TIME, April 14). Choosing to view the award as in part a personal bestowal upon his father-in-law, Publisher Adolph Simon Ochs, Mr. Sulzberger launched into a glowing recital of the Ochs ideals, prowess, personality. To Mr. Sulzberger his chief is "the perfect newspaperman." "He is simple and direct, and able to strip the most difficult problem of its complexities and put his finger on the underlying and motivating facts...
...Notorious Affair (First National). Billie Dove's figure and the clipped accent and expressive eyebrows of Basil Rathbone are the only acceptable components of this cinema. It is an awkward, slow account of the love-affair of an English society woman and a poor musician. People who saw Adolph Menjou in Fashions for Love will understand whence comes the idea for A Notorious Affair, but not how the wit and sophistication that distinguished the Menjou show were eliminated from this imitation. Silliest shot: women swarming about the musician's carriage when he drives up to Albert Hall...