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...Paris; in Paris. Married. Martha Munro Ferguson. 25, daughter of Arizona's famed, comely Mrs. Isabella Greenway whose glamorous history includes ranching, cattle-raising, copper-mining, acting as bridesmaid for Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, seconding the Roosevelt nomination in Chicago; and Charles ("Chuck") Breasted, 34, son of famed Archeologist James Henry Breasted; at Mrs. Greenway's ranch near Tyrone, N. Mex. Separated, Mary Pickford, 40, and Douglas Fairbanks, 50, long reputed the happiest couple in Hollywood, after three years of incompatibility. Wed in 1920, they were never apart for as much as a night for almost ten years...
Engaged. Charles ("Chuck") Breasted, 34, son of the University of Chicago's famed Archeologist James Henry Breasted; and Martha Ferguson, 25, daughter of Mrs. John C. Greenway, friend of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The engagement was inadvertently announced by Mrs. Roosevelt at a Press conference, when newshawks asked who her White House visitors "Martha and Chuck" were...
...Said Archeologist James Henry Breasted, 67, as he sailed with Mrs. Breasted to inspect twelve units of Chicago's Oriental Institute diggers in the Near East: "It makes you feel utterly insignificant to dig and find that those people were so concerned over things that mattered so much to them. . . . And to come across all their tweedle-de-dums and tweedle-de-dees. . . . Given time, others will laugh at our tweedle-de-dees...
...Darius' six chief concubines used to occupy the ancient Persian apartment where Archeologist Ernst Emil Herzfeld last week played chess. She may have played the same old game there. Professor Herzfeld, who dug up & restored the place, has made it headquarters for further excavation of other once magnificent buildings of Persepolis...
Thereafter The Mummy is a thoroughly unreasonable hocus-pocus in which it develops that the reanimated mummy is enamored of the archeologist's fiancee (Zita Johann) who, in a previous incarnation, was an Egyptian priestess. To consummate his romance, the mummy tries to kill the archeologist's fiancee, but goes about it too deliberately to be successful. Typical shot: Karloff and Johann seated beside a tubful of hot water in the steam of which they discern scenes from their life...