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...Anthony G. Schuck, a second-string cinema director who had their marriage annulled when she returned from the production of Trader Horn in Africa. In 1928 Edwina Booth, a lithe, lively, insistent blonde, was earning an occasional $7.50 per day as a Hollywood extra. Director W. S. Van Dyke of M-G-M wanted "a milk-white blonde with a brunette's temper, or better yet a redhead's." He recalled that Edwina Booth had "a temper like a spanked cat." She got the job and a contract for $100 per week. Options increased this...
...Trader Horn) and a script girl. Because the blonde goddess of African natives had to be tanned, ambitious Miss Booth sunbathed herself naked on the deck while the ship sailed down the blazing Red Sea to Mombasa on the African East Coast. To protect themselves from sunstroke Director Van Dyke and others of the company wore red underwear...
Well directed by W. S. Van Dyke, superbly photographed by famed Chinese Cinematographer James Wong Howe, Manhattan Melodrama is first-rate cinema, chiefly important because it marks the elevation to stardom of Myrna...
...wheat ran above $1 per bu. for the first time in three years. But even inflation talk, crop damages and drought could not hold it there, with the result that the long interests grew increasingly impatient. Mr. Morgenthau's pronouncement on rye pulled the plug in the holding dyke. There was not much sense in a heavy long position, traders argued, when the Federal Government, eagerly seeking reciprocal trade agreements, might hand down other rulings as favorable to foreign imports as the decision on rye. Orders to sell began to gush into the whole grain market. On the same...
...name of Van Dyke Street, which adjoins the Harvard Medical School buildings, has been changed to Shattuck Street in honor of Dr. Frederick C. Shattuck '68, it was announced yesterday by Dean David L. Edsall. Dr. Shattuck taught in the Medical School until 1912, and after his retirement was active in all its affairs until his death...