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Among exiled Greek royalties those who dislike beauteous Marina, Duchess of Kent, insist that this onetime Princess of Greece is a clever, ambitious minx bent on jacking up her husband into something of more consequence than the youngest and willowiest son of Britain's George V. Marina knows that Greek Premier...
Since small paragraphs about the Duke and Duchess of Kent had to appear, as usual,, in London society columns, the Duke was reported to be "fishing during the day" while Premier Tsaldaris conferred at the Palace with the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul, and Yugoslavia's Dowager Queen Marie. Marina had the best possible excuse for not going fishing with her George. All Greece believed that she was fishing with Tsaldaris. In London the Duke was covered by Court intimations that "His Royal Highness avoided meeting Premier Tsaldaris, since His Majesty's Government would not permit such negotiations...
Smart Girl (Paramount). When Kent Taylor rings the doorbell of a big house to serve a legal paper on its owner, the door is opened by Ida Lupino who three minutes later proposes to the process-server. Not impressed by her apparent flippancy, he marries, instead, her sister Kay (Gail Patrick) and struggles valiantly to help both girls through the hard times that follow their bankrupt father's suicide. Miss Lupino goes to work for a German milliner (Joseph Cawthorn) and proceeds to demonstrate that, in spite of her smart talk, she is the one he should have picked...
...Pictures away from United Artists to merge with Fox, where Winfield Sheehan has been vice president in charge of production since 1926, it was immediately clear that an amicable settlement of major proportions was at hand. Last week it arrived. After chats with Producer Schenck and Fox President Sidney Kent, Winfield Sheehan announced that he had tendered his resignation. Said Mr. Kent: ". . . It was accepted with regret. I and the corporation extend our best wishes to Mr. Sheehan. . . . This matter has been settled amicably. . . ." Producer Sheehan felicitated the new management, said he had no plans except a holiday abroad...
...something like $360,000 for his contract which had 14 months to run. In the new regime at Fox-henceforth to be called Twentieth Century-Fox-Producer Zanuck will have Producer Sheehan's old job as Production Chief, direct studio operations under the nominal control of President Kent...