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When the literary history of the present era is eventually written, the strange and flighty career of Upton Sinclair is likely to provide one of its most picturesque footnotes. He is as much a literary oddity and popular favorite as General Lew Wallace, who wrote Ben Hur while Governor of New Mexico, and who was distracted from his romance by the lawless exploits of Billy the Kid. Belonging to that class of writers who, unable to choose between the world of affairs and the literary life, have attempted both and succeeded in neither, Sinclair is known in political circles...
...pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif. After studying shorthand in a Brooklyn night school, he got a job as office boy to Universal's Carl Laemmle, for whom he filmed his first big show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in 1923. Soon stolen by MGM, he produced Ben Hur, The Merry Widow, The Big Parade, developed such stars as Lon Chaney, Robert Montgomery. Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, made M-G-M millions at the boxoffice. Addicted to nervous overwork, he arranged his most ambitious and recent film, Romeo & Juliet, around his wife, Norma Shearer (TIME...
Died. Henry J. Pain, 82, retired fireworks manufacturer, pioneer "Prince of Pyrotechnics"; in London. He put on such spectacles as "The Last Days of Pompeii," "The Chariot Race of Ben Hur," "The Battle of Gettysburg," "The Siege of Vera Cruz," "The Destruction of Jerusalem" and "The Battle in the Clouds." Stringent laws and "safe & sane Fourths" brought reverses; his company was finally sold...
Born Myrna Williams 29 years ago on a Montana ranch, Myrna Loy was "discovered'' as an obscure sculptress by Rudolph Valentino. Given the Madonna role in Ben Hur, she was told three hours later she was "not the type." For years she played an endless monotony of roles portraying seductive sinuosity. A stranger to Broadway, she has never been east of the Mississippi...
...Hur (1880) Lew Wallace...