Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sing Baby Sing (Twentieth Century-Fox) opens with the warning that any resemblance the characters may have to real people is due to coincidence. Seldom, if ever, has the remarkable influence of coincidence on screen writing been so apparent. After Joan (Alice Faye) has met Farraday (Adolphe Menjou) in a night club, their romance curiously suggests certain headline episodes in the recent love-life of Miss Elaine Barrie and Mr. John Barrymore...
Married. Guy Waggoner, 58, Texas racetrack owner (Arlington Downs), co-administrator of the $100,000,000 oil fortune left by his father, W. T. ("Old Dan") Waggoner; and Virginia Joan Greene, 20, Dallas department store clerk, his sixth wife; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Fortnight ago he divorced his fifth wife, is reported to have paid her $500.000. Said Father Waggoner once: "Anybody who can't appreciate a pretty woman, a fast horse, and a good beef steer-well, something's wrong with his head." Divorced, Mrs. Lou Hoover Dunbar, daughter of retiring Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford...
...Yacht Club's famed Mackinac Race from Chicago up Lake Michigan, through hazardous Mackinac Straits to Mackinac Island. Sailing the 331-mile course and due to finish this week was the largest (42) fleet of yachts ever to participate. On hand to greet the winner were Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and Harry M. Daugherty...
...Coeur de Lion, Columbus, Ferdinand and Isabella. Cyrus of the Persians besieges Babylon (538 B. C.) At Marathon (490 B. C.) Miltiades and the Greeks hew down the Persians. Alexander the Great gestures imperially to his invincible Macedonians. The Roman Legions' S.P.Q.R. banner rises in triumph over Hasdrubal. Joan of Arc, whose face resembles that of Whitney Museum Director Juliana Force, lifts her sword over the English at Orleans (1429). Charles Martel, William the Conqueror, Napoleon, Wellington, Kellermann, Gustavus Adolphus, Peter the Great, Charles of Sweden, Gates at Saratoga, Meade at Gettysburg, Joffre at the Marne- all are there...
...Universal's program of 42 pictures, most notable was a life of Mme Curie, to prepare for which Irene Dunne was last week visiting Mme Curie's daughter Eve in Paris. Warner Brothers, who set the vogue for serious biographies in cinema, planned six more, including Danton, Joan of Arc and The Story of Beethoven, as well as their usual investigations of singing, dancing and machine-gun shooting...