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Stocky, witty Alexander Yevdokimovich Korneichuk, successful Ukrainian dramatist, member of the Supreme Soviet and, for the past year, a Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs under Molotov, resigned his post the day after his chief announced the new autonomy. Two days later Kiev announced appointment of a Commissar of Foreign Affairs for the Ukraine: Alexander Yevdokimovich Korneichuk, husband of Polish-born Wanda Wasilewska (the leader of the Union of Polish Patriots), firm believer in close harmony among Ukrainians, Czechs and Poles to block revival of Prussian militarism, well-trained disciple of the Molotov method...
...actors did not beam back. In glacial silence they heard their quisling director talk up a quisling dramatist. Then they left the theater to set in motion a little drama of their...
Born. To Ben Hecht, 49, ace movie scribe, playwright (The Front Page), and Rose Cay lor Hecht, 45, onetime dramatist, his second wife: their first child, his second daughter, Jenny; in Manhattan. Weight...
...member of the House of Lords, had committed adultery was not easy for divorce court Justice Gonne Pilcher to believe. But a Piccadilly plaintiff got his divorce and damages, after his full-fashioned wife Pauline admitted in court it was all true. The Baron is a descendant of Georgian dramatist Richard Brinsley (The School for Scandal) Sheridan...
Died. Bayard Veiller, 74, mystery dramatist (Within the Law, The Thirteenth Chair, The Trial of Mary Dugan) ; in Manhattan. Veiller left college for a newspaper job, wrote Within the Law in 1911, sold it outright for $3,750, saw it make $500,000 on the stage...