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...visible audience of 300, and to Crimson Network listeners, Colonel Frederic G. Baur '00 offered the Veterans of Foreign Wars' membership of almost 2,000,000 as the oldest, largest, and strongest organization of its kind...
...actually born in Shelby County, Tenn. Taken to Europe by his parents when he was an infant, he returned to the U.S. in 1939 as a veteran director of German and French films-mostly comedies and musicals-which starred such notables as Emil Jannings, Maurice Chevalier, Harry Baur. But West Coast studios weren't interested. The break came a couple of years ago when he made Phantom Lady with Producer Joan Harrison (TIME, Feb. 28, 1944), followed up with The Suspect and Uncle Harry...
Married. John Wayne (real name.: Marion Michael Morrison), 38, outstanding (6 ft. 2 in.) Hollywood Horse Operative; and Esperanza Baur, 24, to-the-manor-born Mexican cinemactress; both for the second time (she again to a Morrison, he again to a Latin American); in Long Beach, Calif...
Died. Harry Baur, 62, famed French character actor; in Paris. Fisherman, soap salesman, fruit vendor, teacher, he took a face as mobile as a surrealist potato on to the stage in the late 1800s, was a bright star in the theater for more than 30 years, the French cinema's Laughton-Jannings for the past twelve...
...actions are omitted as the French production, a morbid thriller from the first scene, is forced to compress pages of introspection into mere celluloid suggestion. The fiery-eyed Roskalnikov is forced to break down and confess his act under the shrewd handling of detective Porphyr, excellently portrayed by Harry Baur, and his prostitute-turned-saint follows him to Siberia. Pierre Blanchar, who plays Roskalnikov, may be a little too hammy in his actions to suit an American audience, but his overacting detracts little from the film...