Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Ruth Brady, daughter of the late famed Manhattan financier James Cox Brady; to the Honorable Michael Simon Scott of London, brother and heir presumptive to John Scott, fourth Earl of Eldon...
...Syria. Another crusaders' castle, Krak des Chevaliers, is atop the Aloutie Mountains, near Tripolis, Syria. The place was captured from Kurds by survivors of the First Crusade (1096) and later, under the Knights of St. John, was an important guard of the road to Damascus. It is the best preserved of crusader fortresses, because natives during the centuries have dumped 50,000 tons of manure into its cellars and vaults. French diggers have found the masonry in excellent and representative condition...
Show People,* famed ones, William S. Hart, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Norma Talmadge, John Gilbert, Mae Murray, Rod La Rocque, Leatrice Joy, Aileen Pringle, Estelle Taylor, Claire Windsor were paid $7.50 (regular pay per day for extras) and given a good lunch by Marion Davies for showing their faces on her location. Only she and William Haines were in working clothes that day. taking the last scenes of a comedy about a girl who lets the movies swell her head. Hollywood directors distrust pictures that turn the camera on itself, believing illusion is an asset always more valuable than intimacy...
...Martini. People who have never poisoned their bodies with alcohol will find in this film, written by John Thomas, a highly immoral presentation of what happens when a young U. S. femme goes to the Ritz Bar. The furnishings of that bar, human and material, and the somewhat flippant spirit of a father who has been abroad so long he does not recognize his daughter, permit a situation in which probably for the first time in cinema history a good young man is smacked when he tries to correct the morals of a bad young...
...John Roach Straton, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of Manhattan, purchased, last June, a hotel at Greenwood Lake, N. Y., which he planned to use as the base of a summer Bible camp. Last week, the hotel burned to the ground. Dr. Straton and his wife, who were spending a few days at their summer home at the other end of Greenwood Lake, rushed to the hotel in time to hear the final crackles of the fire. Like Senator Heflin of Alabama, Dr. Straton smelled a plot by his enemies...