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First correspondent in Ethiopia, and first to die, was the Chicago Tribune's able Wilfred Courtenay ("Will") Barber, 31, who reached the country in June, sickened month ago in the "yellow hell" of Ogaden. Last week he died of tertian malaria, nephritis and influenza, was buried on a hilltop in Addis Ababa...
Died. William Courtenay, 57, oldtime stage actor (The Wolf, Arsene Lupin, Romance, Under Fire, The Inside Story}; of a heart ailment incurred more than two years ago during the filming of Three Faces East...
...electing Hicks is furnished by Blake's divorced wife. Bribed to do so by the opposition, she inveigles Hicks into a mountain cabin and wins his clothes at cards. Blake & associates arrive in time to prevent Candidate Hicks from being publicly shamed by this crucial buffoonery. Adapted by Courtenay Terrett and the late Joseph Jackson from an anonymous story, The Dark Horse is novel, funny. Good shot: Hicks, when he has memorized one of President Lincoln's speeches to use in a debate, listening to his opponent deliver the same speech...
Only Saps Work (Paramount). The story of this cinema is said to be taken from a play by Owen Davis. The title is one that Paramount, believing it would come in handy, bought from Courtenay Terrett some time ago. And Joseph Mankiewicz is mentioned in connection with the adaptation. But judging from the picture, which is hilariously funny, none of these authorities had much to do with it. Only Saps Work has been composed, acted and directed strictly "from the cuff" -the sort of picture in which cast, cameramen and executives on location go into a conference after each sequence...
...Courtenay Terrett, 27, star reporter of the New York World, discovered the racketeering situation in New York by undertaking an investigation for the World. Racketeering, says he, is a good way to make easy money fast ; but racketeers are "unamusing and, like too many American business men, unable to talk interestingly of any topic outside their own field...