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...Glamor Tennist Alice Marble got a $1-a-year job with the Office of Civilian Defense to plump for national female fitness......Mum on her reasons, Lillian Gish abruptly checked out of the America First Committee....Birth Controler Margaret Sanger ascribed new difficulties of the birth-control movement in the U.S. to the existence of a totalitarian plot.....Elinor Glyn, who brought forth "It," came away from an interview with Britain's Minister of State declaring that what Beaverbrook had was "Vril." She said it meant energy......In England a hitchhiking aircraftsman thumbed a car in the country...
...worth of silver bricks. Then the end of the mining rush left Central City nearly deserted. Its resurrection began when descendants of the original builder gave the Opera House to the University of Denver. The theater was refurbished, its hickory chairs restored, and the curtain went up on Lillian Gish in Camille, designed and directed by Robert Edmond Jones...
...Dorothy Gish's performance as the frivolous and enduring wife of it all is revealed a threat to Mary Boland's reign in this line. "Vinnie's" utter lack of practicality affords a refreshing contrast to father's hard-headedness. She explains to "Clare, dear" that Junior's new suit "won't cost a cent because I exchanged it for that china dog I charged at the store." "And," with an innocent little smile, "they can't charge you for the dog, because we don't have it." This irrefutably naive logic leaves father speechless and the audience howling...
...Democratic vote in the Illinois Presidential preference primary was cast for Actress Lillian Gish. Said Chicago Taxi Driver Herman Marks, who wrote in her name: "I did it because she makes everybody happy...
...musical composition a baby's cry reminded him of (Richard Strauss's Domestic Symphony). Catcher Moe Berg identified Garibaldi's Carbonari. Russel Grouse still thought the football team best suggested by an ocean was C. C. N. Y. (book answer: Tulane's Green Wave). Lillian Gish remembered her Browning better. The board recalled three of Peggy Joyce's four husbands...