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...Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigoriy Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze, a swarthy, hot-eyed Georgian who is married to an Eskimo, and plump U. S. Woman Novelist Ursula Parrott (ExWife, Strangers May Kiss) agreed last week that Russians are growing more cleanly. The Commissar was quoted in Izvestia to the effect that clean engineers keep their machines clean. Mrs. Parrott. docking in Manhattan with tales of having bribed her way around Russia with 48 pairs of silk stockings, bubbled: "There is a growing interest in cleanliness among Russians. This is shown in their [new] habit of washing before meals. Culture...
Hero, One of the Northwest's great heroes is husky, hearty Frank Dorbandt. He has rushed serum to many a stricken Eskimo, carried antitoxin to many an ailing Indian, flown many a sick white to far-off hospitals. In 1930 he risked his life in an air search for his onetime flying mate, the late Carl Ben Eielson. In 1932 he made headlines by landing Father Bernard Hubbard inside the smoking volcano of Aniakchak. A longtime fur trader, Hero Dorbandt lately was accused by the Federal Government of smuggling pelts into the U. S. Last month in Seattle...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's W. S. ("Woody") Van Dyke (White Shadows in the South Seas, Trader Horn, Eskimo) dislikes being pigeonholed as a "location-director." Yet such he was until he made The Prizefighter and the Lady last autumn. Since then he has made Manhattan Melodrama and The Thin Man, both smash hits. He rarely makes more than two "takes" of a scene; many directors make a dozen. He is a reserve captain in the Marine Corps. Most of his friends are military officers. Military maneuvres are his hobby and he maps out his pictures like a general planning...
...Eskimo is not one of the languages written by King George but he lately signed a message in Eskimo to his Innuit subjects in the Hudson Bay country. Last week the message was released as Governor Patrick Ashley Cooper of Hudson's Bay Co. was on a 10,000-mile tour of trading posts in the remote North. Text...
Rockwell Kent sailed for Unamak, Greenland, where he will paint, write, live mostly on shark, seal & whale, initiate his 13-year-old son Gordon into Eskimo life. Said Artist Kent: "A very fine people, the Greenlanders. All marvelous physical specimens. . . . Their personal lives are free and unrestrained. . . . Their social life is a riot. If it weren't for the necessities of getting a living, they'd dance all the time, all night and every night...