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President Svinhufvud is famed and beloved chiefly because his efforts to free the former Grand Duchy of Finland from Russia landed him at first in an even bleaker place than Finland, namely the Tsarist prisons of Siberia. In 1914 six Tsarist Secret Police marched into Judge Svinhufvud's Court, arrested him for sedition, chased everyone out of the courthouse, sealed it with the Double Eagle of Imperial Russia and lodged their prisoner in a Finnish jail whence he would be deported to Siberia. Indomitable Mrs. Svinhufvud took in boarders while her husband languished in Siberian exile, visited him every...
...James Cash Penney, chainstore tycoon, paid $8.25 per lb. for 920-lb. World's Grand Champion Lucky Strike. World's Champion beef commands fancy prices when served in hotels or dining cars, brings its vendor publicity...
...outset of many a cinematic career. He was a copy boy for the New York Sun; a department store bundle-wrapper; a librarian; a neophyte painter. He left Columbia University to be a chorus boy. From this traditionally effeminate occupation, he presently was graduated to vaudeville, musical comedy (Grand Street Follies)., legitimate plays (Women Go on Forever and Outside Looking In for which he was selected because he had red hair). His 1930 performance, opposite Joan Blondell, in Penny Arcade, got him to Hollywood, which, since talkies, has been the final up-step for an actor's progress. Noted...
...animation, produces a live, dangerous and somewhat human monster. Universal, encouraged by the success of Dracula to produce a series of horrific weirds, in which Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue will be next, entrusted the direction of Frankenstein to James Whale. He did it in the Grand Guignol manner, with as many queer sounds, dark corners, false faces and cellar stairs as could possibly be inserted...
Died. William Carl von Hammer, 61, founder, secretary & treasurer of the Philadelphia Grand Opera Association; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. First founded to gain local support for the San Carlo Opera Company, the Philadelphia Opera assumed independence under the able guidance of Founder Hammer and his wife, Mrs. Kathryn Cecil O'Gorman Hammer, produced, notably, Wozzeck (TIME, March...