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Biggest music name in Fairbanks, Alaska is that of Robert M. Crawford, shortened to "Klondike Bob" by the sourdoughs who knew him 30 years ago. As a shaggy-haired lad of 7 he went among the miners passing his fur hat, singing In the Good Old Summer Time. As Bob...
Married. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (ne Ullman), 52, cinemactor; and Lady Ashley (Sylvia Hawkes), 52, onetime musicomedienne; after a round-the-world romance; in Paris. U. S. Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus was a witness. In 1934 Lord Ashley divorced his wife on charges of misconduct with Fairbanks; month later Mary Pickford...
Knockabout. Smallest (6 ft., 1 ½ in.) of five sons of a Finnish miner in Crystal Falls, Mich., Emil Hurja had left home at 16, hoboed his way West. He had sampled his luck in Butte, Mont., Yakima, Wash., Fairbanks, Alaska and Seattle, worked as a grocer's delivery...
Most effective was the Swan Dance, filmed by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford when Pavlova visited them in Hollywood in 1930, a few months before her death. Strangest shot was one taken by Dandré in Pavlova's garden in Hampstead which showed her in a simple gingham dress...
Last week Mrs. Everett James Goodenough of Covington, Ky. was waiting for Mr. Everett James Goodenough to "come home and talk her arm off." Husband Goodenough was in Fairbanks, Alaska where officers of the First National Bank have been having trouble with their vault. To service their equipment, they summoned...