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...roue who has become engaged to his daughter. The audience is agitated, not by the question of culpability which is early and clearly established, but in wondering what penalty will fall upon the murderer. His crime is justified; he has planned it carefully; but the roue's mistress (Kay Francis) suspects Barrymore and finds evidence to justify her suspicions. It is necessary for Barrymore to explain to her with gestures, that he can manufacture a water-tight case against her unless she holds her tongue. Ably constructed, Guilty Hands is made into a murder story in the grand manner...
...Schwab of Bethlehem Steel Corp. (violin, organ) ; Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes ("Melody in A Major"); President William Hartman Woodin of American Car & Foundry ("Raggedy Ann's Sunny Songs"); Professor Albert Einstein (violin). Banker James Paul Warburg (pseudonym, Paul James) writes lyrics to the jazz tunes of his wife, Kay Swift, whose "Fine & Dandy" was a Broadway smash hit last autumn...
...George H. Kay, 68-year-old landscape artist, blew out his brains in Cheyenne Wells, Col. fortnight ago. No U. S. artist ever sold so many pictures. A rapid draughtsman, he painted the same scene over & over again. In Kansas City a department store sold 6,000 original Kays by advertising OIL PAINTINGS BARGAIN PRICE $2.98. Before he died he left a note: "Cremate my body and scatter the ashes to the four winds of heaven. Everything is gone. I have 15? left." ¶Robert Spencer, able portraitist, 1928 judge of the Carnegie Institute International Exhibition at Pittsburgh, blew...
...from the drooling lyric of the current foxtrot, "Just a Gigolo." A few weeks' experience as a bond salesman was what made William Powell turn gig, and he did well for a while on the money received from pawning jewelry given him by admirers. He vacillated agreeably between Kay Francis, Olive Tell and Carole Lombard ; he had even fallen in love with Miss Francis and was threatening to go to work when fate overtook him in the manner which tradition prescribes for gigolos. The husband of a woman he had been comforting all winter came home one evening...
Divorced. Betty Compton, 24, musicomedienne (Oh, Kay!, Fifty Million Frenchmen), friend of Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker; from Edward Duryea Dowling, cinema dialog director whom she had married secretly in Manhattan's Carlton House 33 days prior (TIME, March 2 ), from whom she became estranged two days later (TIME, March 16); in Cuernavaca, Mexico, after "a day or two" residence. Grounds: "cruelty, personal violence, refusal to provide maintenance." Said the New York Daily Mirror: "An attempt at suicide preceded Miss Compton's marriage . . . Dowling was an interlude . . . from which the actress emerged when it reached the ears...