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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Joan Crawford, 25, film actress; and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.. 25; in Los Angeles, Calif. Grounds: cruelty...
...Century of Progress Exposition; and one Beverly Jefferson, 28; in Chicago. Married, Sarah Schuyler Butler, thirtyish, onetime vice chairman of New York's Republican State Committee, only child of Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler; and Captain Neville Lawrence, London broker; in Manhattan. Seeking Divorce. Joan Crawford Fairbanks, cinemactress; from Douglas Fairbanks Jr., cinemactor. Grounds: "grievous mental cruelty"; "a jealous and suspicious attitude" toward her friends; "loud arguments about the most trivial subjects," lasting "far into the night." Resigned. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, author (The Good Earth), as a Chinese missionary, voluntarily, without a hearing on heresy charges...
...lowboard diving and the 300-yd. medley swim, with a new world's record of 4:14.4; at the Women's National A. A. U. Championships, in Buffalo. Other titleholders: Lenore Kight, 100-yd., 220-yd., and 500-yd. free style; Margaret Hoffman, 100-yd. breast stroke.; Joan McSheehy, 100-yd. back stroke; Dorothy Poynton, highboard diving...
Today We Live (Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer). On the day that she hears her father has been killed in the War, Diana Boyce-Smith (Joan Crawford) makes the acquaintance of an exceedingly tactless young American who has come to England to rent her house. Shortly after she has sent her brother, Ronnie, and her fiance. Claude, off to man a torpedo-launch together on the coast of France, she finds out that she really loves not Claude (Robert Young) but the American, Richard Bogard (Gary Cooper). The troubles that arise from this situation are what you might expect in the first...
Devotees of the Metropolitan should not have high hopes for this week's presentation, for "Blondie Johnson," starring Joan Blondell and Chester Morris, falls far below the Met standard...