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Divorced. By Joanne Dru, 26, brunette cinemactress (Red River): Crooner Dick Haymes, 32; after seven years of marriage, three children; in Reno. Joanne announced that "it's probably in the cards" that 1) she will marry Actor John Ireland, and 2) Haymes will marry Nora Eddington Flynn as soon as Nora gets her divorce this month from Cinemactor Errol Flynn...
...Kans., soon after the Civil War. It is also the story of the fierce character duel which develops, along the way, between the tyrannical boss cattleman (John Wayne) and his intransigent foster son (Montgomery Clift). Mr. Clift takes time out for a little romance with a "dancing girl"*(Joanne Dru), but essentially this is a movie about...
Since the time of the initial report, however, largely through the efforts of Dr. Dru Drury of Grahamstown, additional information has been discovered. Dr. Drury has been able to interview and to examine Lucas, and has talked with every available person who might possibly have had knowledge of the case...
...fact, which will be equal to any other when all are collected and analyzed, that he was a reformer. In 1912, twenty years after he began, as a rich and influential citizen, to prompt behind the political curtain of Texas, there was published anonymously a novel called "Philip Dru, Administrator." Later House admitted that it came from his pen, but even today that political novel, the philosophy of which was drawn from the liberal Mazzani and which advocated--among other things--a graduated income tax, universal suffrage, and a flexible currency, is hardly known as the work of the idealistic...
...Philip Dru" appeared at a significant moment in America, for at the end of 1912 House became known to the people as the friend of President-elect Wilson. The two men first met at a New Jersey dinner and soon recognized they held common interests, since the "Texas Talleyrand" had long been studying history and politics as a hobby, while Wilson had been writing and teaching them. Like the other muckrakers of that period,--Upton Sinclair, Judge Ben Lindsay, David Graham Phillips, and Lincoln Steffens--at heart Colonel House had the ideals of the reformer. After gaining Wilson's confidence...