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Marriage Revealed. Cinemactor Arthur ("Harpo") Marx, 42, mute member of the four Marx comedians; and Susan Fleming, 31, onetime Follies showgirl; "around Sept. 26"; "somewhere in California or Nevada." Minus his frowzy blond wig, he said he had driven aimlessly with his brunette bride-to-be until he found a justice of the peace, went through the ceremony unrecognized. Upon telegraphing President Roosevelt congratulations, Funnyman Marx explained he had kept his marriage secret until after Nov. 3 "because I didn't want to crowd you off the front page...
...reported $100,000, onetime Cinemactor John Leslie ("Jackie") Coogan, 22, bought a 10-acre San Fernando (Calif.) Valley estate; including six acres of walnuts, a 12-room farmhouse, caretaker's cottage, stables, kennels, chicken and turkey-raising equipment, $10,000 electric train, once the property of Cinema Director Lloyd Bacon...
...year of California fruit and other products, almost half of which was shipped out of the state, the chains sloganed "22 is a tax on You." Most pretentious piece of chain propaganda began six months ago with "California's Hour," a radio program with oldtime Cinemactor Conrad Nagel as Master of Ceremonies. Independent storemen founded an Anti-Monopoly League raised some $50,000 (compared to the $400,000 to $500,000 which the chains admitted spending), plied the public with counter propaganda...
...four days hard-looking Film Director Wesley Ruggles, brother of Cinemactor Charles Ruggles, vainly searched Chicago for a "mug," concluded: "I prowled the stockyards . . . paced through Cicero where some of the gangland mugs used to live, but I couldn't find a single mug that looked like...
...Bankrupt Cinemactor Reginald Denny two months ago set up a model airplane factory in Hollywood, started producing a six-foot monoplane powered by a single-cylinder, 1/5-horsepower gasoline engine. To lure financial backing, he last week sent a Denny standard model zooming from Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal carrying eight ounces of gasoline. With news cameramen and a National Aeronautic Association official trailing in a full-sized airplane, the tiny ship soared up to 1,600 ft., flew ten miles till it crashed into the Santa Suzanna Mountains after 1 hr., 47 min. Announcing that the demonstration had brought...