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Born Marjorie Robertson, Cinemactress Neagle (rhymes with eagle) got a grip on her career as a chorine when a British musical took her to Manhattan. Back in England, Producer-Director Herbert Wilcox signed her up, patiently brought her along, picture by picture, from musicomedy to solemn historical roles. In eight years they made 14 pictures together. Among them: Victoria the Great (which made the Neagle reputation international) ; Sixty Glorious Years (Victorian impersonation No. 2) ; Nurse, Edith Cavell...
...Cinemactress Rogers did not show up to watch her team play. Neither did a lot of other people. When the ponies pranced onto the field, there were only some 3,000 spectators in the grandstand or fanning themselves in the boxes. Reasons: The heat was 90° in the shade; the privilege of baking in one of the boxes cost $5.50; Midwick was aloof...
...movie members, strove manfully to bring the social irreconcilables together. He had little luck. The only real fraternization went on in the party of tall, dark Mrs. Edwin Earl and her husband, whose father owned Los Angeles' defunct Express. Her group contained Lawyer Thomas Joyce, Comedian Robert Benchley, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell, Poloist Eric Pedley...
...would take more than this false-note ending to spoil a picture which has in its background Dennie Moore as a gossipy, husband-hunting, goo-goo-eyed mail-order clerk. Cinemactress Moore is mistress of fluttery, nasal, dime-store Manhattanese. It is worth sitting twice through the picture to see her exhibition of modesty conquering candor as she twitters: "I'm going to the washroom-pardon my frankness...
Divorced. Actor Franchot Tone,34; by Cinemactress Joan Crawford, 32, who in 1934 divorced Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; after sentimental get-togethers while the final decree was pending; in Los Angeles...