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...cinema public already well posted on the subject the details of Actor Robert Taylor's profile seen from the right. When Actor Taylor, functioning as Lieutenant Timberlake, has been removed from the proceedings by heroic death in action, the picture gathers pace. The idealistic love of Peggy (Joan Crawford) for Senator John Randolph (Melvyn Douglas); her marriage to Eaton (Franchot Tone); and her single-minded devotion to President Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) form a pattern which balances in entertainment whatever it may lack in educational value. Surrounded by youthful matinee idols who seem a shade too chipper in the roles...
...with real happiness that I return today to see again the place of my birth. I have come back to this part of the country almost every summer for 30 years. I still send to Crawford County every winter for maple syrup [laughter']. ... I feel that I am visiting with old friends, discussing common difficulties in an effort to find a real and common-sense solution for them...
...England: the Davis Cup, for the fourth successive year, when, with the score two matches all, dashing Fred Perry beat Australia's Jack Crawford, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; at Wimbledon...
...Club's famed Mackinac Race from Chicago up Lake Michigan, through hazardous Mackinac Straits to Mackinac Island. Sailing the 331-mile course and due to finish this week was the largest (42) fleet of yachts ever to participate. On hand to greet the winner were Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and Harry M. Daugherty...
...Would you rather have your children more interested," inquired Trustee Drinker, "in the love life of marmots, magpies and mosquitoes than in the love life of Joan Crawford and Clark Gable? If you help us get this money . . . we will have your children so interested in the love life of birds, bats and begonias that they will forget all about Joan and the rest of the movie stars. Instead of the movie magazines, you will find the publications of the Academy on their reading tables...