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...ravishing star claimed that she didn't like Clark Gable and his type of actor. "I don't like sheiks, I like real he-men like Victor MacLaglen, or George Bancroft," exclaimed Miss Lee, tossing her head and revealing a gleaming white shoulder. "And I don't like English actors either; I don't mind their accents, but it's their actions that get me down." Gypsy was enthusiastic in her praise of Mae West. "She's just terrific and very clever, and talented, too. I didn't like her last picture so well--it was too vulgar, but usually...
Blood Money (Twentieth Century), contrived as a vehicle to bring George Bancroft back to the screen after an absence of 18 months, is a mildly exciting little treatise on the bail bond racket. Its hero, Bill Bailey (Bancroft), is a bluff bondsman who gets into difficulties with his underworld associates when, to pay back a bank thief for stealing his girl, he makes less sympathetic arrangements than usual. It is notable less for Bancroft's contribution than for its villainess (Frances Dee), a pretty, well-mannered debutante who is also a masochist, a kleptomaniac and an exhibitionist. Good shot...
...Yale some years, and in looking back, what difference does it really make whether we win or lose, as compared with the combined pleasure of all Harvard graduates and undergraduates during the autumn football season? Should such great athletes in Harvard rowing as Gerry Cassedy, Bob Saltonstall, Mac Bancroft, and Benny Bacon ever be debarred from seeing Harvard football teams practice when they, themselves, rowing, cannot see sports in other seasons of the year...
Died. Hugh Bancroft, 54, publisher, president of Dow, Jones & Co. (world's largest purveyors of finance news and ticker service, publishers of the Wall Street Journal) and of Financial Press Co. (Barren's Weekly, the Philadelphia. Financial Journal, the Boston News Bureau); apparently by his own hand (coal gas poisoning); in Cohasset, Mass. A medical examiner said Bancroft entered a blacksmith shop on his estate, sealed the doors and windows, lighted a fire in the forge...
...late Dwight Bancroft Heard brought the Republic (then the Republican, a "progressive independent newspaper") into affluence, willed a large block of stock to his favorite employe, Charles A. Stauffer who, with Mrs. Heard, later purchased the Gazette. Since Publisher Heard's death, the Republic has ceased to champion any cause except the 18th Amendment...