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Berkeley. When anyone outside the state thinks of the University of Califor nia he usually thinks of Berkeley. Within the state it is a moot point, depending largely upon which end of the Commonwealth one lives in. Southern Californians jealously defend the autonomy of the University of California at Los Angeles* (whose commencement occurs the end of this month), and point with pride to their new plant, call attention to the fact that U.C.L.A. is now empowered to give a four-year college course. But the unit at Berkeley is the parent organization. An outgrowth of the College of California...
Born in Logan, Utah, in 1895, John Gilbert left the traveling stock company of his mother (Ida Adair) for a Califor nia military academy, then dusted desks in a rubber company's western office until his ramrod bearing and bright eye got him jobs as a film extra. Becoming famed in The Big Parade, he played in a series of films with Greta Garbo. Known, like half a dozen other actors, as the "screen's greatest lover," he had been married twice before - once to a girl who sang songs at a training camp where he was stationed...