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WifeofBenjamin-Z.-Fineberg-President- of-Superfine-Pictures-Incorporated is Actress Gladys George in her starring rôle as the blonde, seductive cinemactress of Personal Appearance (TIME. Oct. 29), current Manhattan stage hit. In private life Miss George has a husband named Edward Fowler, a Springfield. Mass, paper manufacturer. She also has a tortoise-shell Persian cat named Mungkee...
...Chicagoans left the opera house marveling at what Dancer Page had accomplished with a comparatively new troupe, marveling at the courage and energy it required to attempt to emancipate opera ballet. After the performance Dancer Page took her first recreation in weeks, went to a champagne supper which Harold Fowler McCormick gave for Paul Drennan Cravath, chairman of the Metropolitan Opera, who traveled from Manhattan to see Ruth Page's ballets...
...year was 1925, the grandson, 26-year-old Fowler McCormick, heir to International Harvester Co. millions. Fowler McCormick went to work at $35 a week for the company his other grandfather founded, lived in a $4-a-week boarding house, pitched horseshoes with his fellow workmen during lunch hour. From heaving 200-lb. pig iron ingots, he moved to engineering and on to sales, becoming assistant manager of domestic sales in 1933. Last week hard-working Fowler McCormick was elected vice president in charge of foreign sales...
...wanted to sing in opera. So he left East Berlin, Conn., changed his name to Mack Sennett, went to Manhattan to seek his fortune. That was in 1906. How he struggled and prospered, and how a little mouse got him in the end is the theme of Gene Fowler's Father Goose. For once biographer and subject are an almost perfect match. Readers who never saw a Keystone comedy will have a hard time restraining their whoops as Gene Fowler unreels this fantastic slapstick-story of Hollywood success...
Sennett herself proved to be an almost infallible barometer of public taste. Biographer Fowler denies his sense of humor but says ''perhaps he had the greatest sense of the ridiculous of any man in modern times." When he laughed at a gag, audiences were sure to howl over it. The roster of his employes reads like a Hollywood Hall of Fame: Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson, "Fatty" Arbuckle, W. C. Fields, Ben Turpin, Harold Lloyd, Weber & Fields, Lew Cody, Louise Fazenda, Bebe Daniels, Buster Keaton, Hal Roach, many another. It was Mack Sennett who imported Charlie Chaplin...