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Shanghai, as Hollywood viewed it, was a bright and glamorous city of glittering vice; the real Shanghai was a powerful economic organism sucking nourishment from the trade of the Yangtze valley. To day both Shanghais are dead-and within the putrefaction of its mist-shrouded cadaver the maggots of destruction worm silently about. Cabarets, with their white slaves, adventurers, opium-runners and hatchetmen, still operate in Shanghai; but ringed about with Japanese bayonets, spies, terrorized by free-firing gunmen, they have lost their glamor. Most efficient of the operating agencies in this Oriental caricature of Hell is the Japanese Special...
...hundred and seventy miles south, on the same Atlantic coast, a pea-soup fog swallowed two other joyriders. Nicholas S. Embiricos, 32, Greek-born director of a London shipping firm, and Mrs. Eleanor Young, 23 (ex-Mrs. Robert Ogden Bacon Jr., ex-Manhattan glamor girl), had taken off from Newport, R.I. in a Fairchild monoplane to fly to New York. At Matunuck, twelve miles down the coast, amateur Pilot Embiricos circled, found a rift in the fog, nosed downward for a landing. As he leveled off, a wave slapped the wings, and the plane crashed in shallow water. Embiricos died...
...Married. Glamor Girl Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 20; and John Sims Kelly, 31, onetime pro football player whom the bride prefers to call "Jack" rather than "Shipwreck"; in her mother's Manhattan apartment...
Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 20, perennial Glamor Girl No. 1, finally decided to wed her longtime escort, socialite Insuranceman John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 31, onetime pro football player. Brenda, whose allowance has been $1,000 a week, said they would live on Ship's insurance commissions, at least until she comes into her $3,500,000 next year. He gave her a diamond-paved cabochon emerald ring. She said they would live obscurely. Dancers Tony and Renee de Marco seemed split for good when Renee left Manhattan last week, bound for "Florida ... or Reno." Maritally separated since 1938, they...
Divorced. By Tallulah Bankhead, glamor-girl stage star, 39; John Emery, the leading man she surprised everybody by marrying in 1937; in Reno...