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Died. Daniel Carter Beard, 90, American Boy Scouts' idol and guiding spirit; at Suffern...
Blood and Sand (20th Century-Fox). As Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez described him, Juan Gallardo was a matador who believed that bulls and women were created for the sole purpose of giving him glory and pleasure. A poor boy who came up the hard way, he was the idol of Spain's bull rings and boudoirs until a disrespectful bull punctured his vast ego with a well-directed horn. He died bitterly within the sound of the fight fans acclaiming their new hero of the afternoon...
...sexy Rudolph Valentino transferred the best-selling hero of Blood and Sand to celluloid, 19 years ago, he had an instinctive understanding of the part. In many ways his own career paralleled Juan's. An obscure and hungry Italian immigrant, he had become the most extensively worshiped matinee idol in the history of the theater. His kindred feeling for Juan Gallardo made the matador's tragedy seem real. His performance produced a character who was a shining, dominant personality in the arena, a vulgar poseur...
With the plodding thoroughness of Henry James developing a character in fourteen chapters, Playwright Robert Sherwood as director of "Adam-Had Four Sons" has made it into a psychological dissection of an upperclass family during the last war. Warner Baxter, stouter than in his matinee idol days but still a portrayer of semi-phlegmatic emotion, acts the bachelor-ed broker whose love for his housekeeper (Ingrid Bergman) is disturbed by her suspicious actions in protecting him from knowledge of the unfaithfulness of his daughter-in-law. Susan Hayward looks, as well as plays, the part of the scheming minx...
...syndicate to buy Mr. Adams' holdings (73% of the club's stock), reputedly worth $350,000. The 17 new owners, thoroughly acceptable to Judge Landis, include Casey Stengel, the Bees' manager; Max C. Meyer of Brooklyn, manufacturer of Richelieu pearls; and Francis Ouimet, Boston's idol who was recently exalted to golf's brand-new Hall of Fame. With new working capital (Judge Landis had forbidden Grocer Adams to put any more sugar into the club), the Bees may sprout new wings, buzz up out of the second division for the first time in seven...