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Died. Dorothy Dell Goff, 19, blonde cinemactress (Wharf Angel, Little Miss Marker); in an automobile accident; near Altadena, Calif. A series of beauty contests brought her titles of "Miss American Legion," "Miss New Orleans," "Miss America." Florenz Ziegfeld gave her a job in the Follies of 1931 after she became Galveston's "Miss Universe" in a $2.98 white bathing suit. In Hollywood she was being groomed for stardom...
...whole U. S."-21 strong. There was Mike Latorra, 49, Chicago truck gardener, and his wife Rosa. 44, and their children: 1) Mrs. Lawrence Damore, 26, mother of five; 2) Mrs. Lucille Quarante, 25, mother of three; 3) Mrs. Margaret Palella, 24, mother of three; 4) Mrs. Angeline Dell, 22; 5) Mrs. Dominic Damore, 21; 6) Sarah, 21, twin of No. 5; 7) Isabel, 19; 8) Vito, 17; 9) Michael, 16; 10) Rocco, 16, twin of No. 9; 11) Joseph 15; 12) Frank, 12; 13) Mary, 11; 14) Nicholas, 10; 15) John, 8; 16) Philip, 6; 17) Nancy...
...twisted caption. TIME accepts rebuke. But Reader Thomas guesses wrong. The three in the picture were (right to left): Sidney Blackmer, Actress Claudia Dell...
...promised in future to support her family "in comfort but not extravagance." Wharf Angel (Paramount). It is a cinema tradition that the medium for introducing a new star should be a picture in which she performs as a prostitute with more principles than profits. In Wharf Angel Toy (Dorothy Dell) is a San Francisco bad girl, rehabilitated by her pure love for Como (Preston Foster). He is a soap box socialist hounded by the police for a murder he did not commit. Turk (Victor McLaglen), also in love with Toy, helps Como escape. This leads to two climactic moments which...
...omissions. There was no example of the work of the late Joseph Urban, whose electric blue backdrops for the early Follies brought the first stirrings of good taste to U. S. musicomedies. In the antique section of the show there were neither settings nor costumes of the important commedia dell' arte. Most important of all there were no examples of the whole school of late 19th Century realism that reached its height in the spectacular Drury Lane melodramas in which frail heroines were pursued through burning forests and over real waterfalls, in which locomotives and galloping horses cluttered...