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...Marines-and has served overseas with a Red Cross nursing unit, decided to quit the screen for keeps. She explained that she would continue with the Red Cross until after the war, then planned to care for the 200 homeless children she has sheltered at her home outside Paris. British-born, beauteous Madeleine vowed that it "is to them and them alone that I will devote myself," added that she had always been "at heart more French than English...
Charles Chaplin, relaxing between trials on paternity charges brought by Joan Berry, found himself in the headlines again: a bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate directing the Attorney General to find out whether the British-born actor could be deported as an undesirable alien on charges of immorality. The bill's sponsor: North Dakota's lone wolf Senator William Langer, who had been charged with "moral turpitude" but was acquitted before being officially seated in the Senate...
Soon after he settled in the U.S., British-born Francis Guy faced the fact that he would never get rich at his tailoring-and-dyeing business. To pad out his income, he tried an odd assortment of avocations-including verse writing, mixing toothache remedies and painting landscapes. None of these efforts made him rich, but his paint brush eventually attracted attention. Last week at Chicago's Art Institute, 125 years after his death, Francis Guy (1760-1820) was being referred to as a grandfather of U.S. landscape painting...
...setting of colorful and imaginatively jivey musical numbers, this ingenuous little tale might easily, and happily, have been pretty well lost. That it is not lost is due in part to plausible and polished performances by Bowman and Hayworth, but mostly to British-born Producer Victor Saville's excellent direction. With a shrewd use of every sentimental prop that greasepaint and a war-torn London can provide, Saville has told his story simply, with a minimum of gush, and considerable authenticity...
China's plan was born late in 1943, when Lauchlin Currie, then acting deputy administrator of the Foreign Economic Administration, sat down to discuss it with FEA's electric, little, British-born chief engineer, Alex Taub. Taub had just completed a ten-year industrialization plan for Brazil. Said Currie: "China's alive. Why not do one for China...