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Last week somewhat somnolent business was jarred by the beat of a tom-tom. Publicity-wise, plane-cracking, bemonocled Negro Aviator Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian announced that he had joined Micheaux Picture Corp. as associate producer. Occasion was the world premiere of The Notorious Elinor Lee, first of a series of pictures which Julian says he will make with Micheaux Pictures...
Producer Julian outlined an ambitious schedule of four pictures a year. First picture was The Notorious Elinor Lee, which tells the story of a double-crossing colored gun moll who gets properly shot. Lyin' Lips, the second picture, is also completed. "It is about a beautiful girl who is led astray because she wants beautiful things. . . . You see," said Producer Julian, "I am trying to build up the morals of my race...
Interviewed on her 75th birthday as she sat on a sofa draped with a tiger skin in her pink-walled London apartment, Elinor ("It") Glyn, British novelist who writes nowadays only when she has "passionate thoughts that will help humanity," explained: "I have an immense passion for tigers. When I go to a zoo I have a most peculiar effect on them...
Divorced. Conrad Thibault, 34, opera & radio baritone who as a choirboy was encouraged by the late Calvin Coolidge to make singing his career; by Elinor Kendall Thibault, 29; in Reno, Nev. Immediately after the divorce, Mrs. Thibault married Frank James Welton, 23, of New York...
...poets who became his friends were Vachel Lindsay, Sara Teasdale, Robert Frost, William Rose Benét and his wife, Elinor Wylie. Advised Lindsay: "Base the serious side of your criticism of poetry with the tone of Abraham Lincoln as a touchstone, and the criticism of humor on the tone of Mark Twain. . . . We must have a humorous standard. Young writers. . . have been offered every kind of freedom by the critics but this-the freedom to laugh...