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Divorced. Joseph Francis ("Buster") Keaton, 35, film actor; and Natalie Talmadge Keaton. 29; in Los Angeles. Grounds: neglect. Died. Lieut.-Commander Vincent Arthur Clarke Jr., 41, onetime commander of U. S. S. Los Angeles; of blood poisoning; in Vallejo, Calif. Died. Vere Stuart Menteth Hutchinson, 41, novelist (Great Waters, Thy Dark Freight), sister of Novelist Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson (If Winter Comes); in London. Died. James C. Lawrence, 42, dean of administration at University of Minnesota, member of President Hoover's first Unemployment Relief Committee; by inhaling carbon monoxide; in Minneapolis. Died. Ray Austin Graham, 45, treasurer of Graham...
Next day Maiola Kalili finished third in the final heat, behind Ray Thompson of Annapolis and Al Schwartz of the Illinois athletic Club, who won. Clarence ("Buster") Crabbe won the 1,500-metre free style race; but spies from the Japanese Olympic team, who sat peering at the meet and scribbling in note books, wrote a long description about a freckled 14-year-old Floridian, Ralph Flanagan, who finished a close second. Crabbe won the 400-metre free style two days later, in better time than the Olympic record...
...German slang) is the oldest color page with a continuous existence in newspaper history. The World had the first of all U. S. colored comic strips, "The Yellow Kid"-a gamin whose street argot later gave rise to the term "yellow journalism"-produced by the late Richard Felt on ("Buster Brown") Outcault Hearst lured Outcault to the Journal. Meanwhile the Journal's new "Katzenjammer Kids" had struck popular fancy. The World saw its chance to retaliate for the loss of the "Yellow Kid" and won Dirks away from the Journal which, outraged, unsuccessfully sued the World...
...lighter vein, Buster Keaton, is playing in "The Passionate Plumber," and for those who like Buster Keaton, there are some funny if familiar situations. Paris would be the setting, and the gestulations and excitability of the French must inevitably be relied upon to furnish many laughs...
...that Buster is not clicking in perfect form, for he plainly strains, himself to protect Polly Moran from falling in love with one of those fickle gigolos. After smashing of a great deal of crockery over sundry heads, which always is amusing to see, even though it may be a sign of a sadistic nature, love is finally frustrated, and the audience awaits the Micky Mouse...