Word: lester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cecil DeMille took Katherine DeMille, who plays Molly Brant in the West picture, out of a Los Angeles orphanage when she was 9. Her father was a Canadian named Edward Lester, killed in one of the Vimy Ridge engagements. Her mother died in a Los Angeles charity hospital. As DeMille's daughter she grew up in his big house on DeMille Road, a real estate development owned by him on a hill overlooking Hollywood. She took the usual scholastic courses that interest girls with money in expensive private schools, dancing, amateur dramatics, etc. She was the brightest girl...
...LESTER W. COLE JOHN C. OTTINGER...
...Austin who dislikes the strain of a long tournament. With these exceptions the names on the West Side Club scoreboards include nearly all the best players in the world. Topping the list are the members of the U. S. Davis Cup team, Sidney Wood, Frank Shields, George Lott and Lester Stoefen. Experts wondered how o rate the chances of Berkeley Bell, once No. 9 but now No. 18 in national ranking, who has won nine tournaments this season; of youthful oldtimers like John Van Ryn, Wilmer Allison, Bryan Grant and Clifford Sutter: of the latest batch of promising youngsters like...
...front cover) Frederick John Perry last week blacked his eye on an awning rod bowing to Helen Jacobs, threw a handful of rolls at Lester Stoefen, appeared with a wave in his hair. At Germantown, Pa., George Lott and Lester Stoefen retained their U. S. doubles championship by defeating John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison 6-4, 9-7, 3-6, 6-4. At Rye, N. Y., most of the first-class tennists in the U. S. assembled to put the finishing touches on their games. In the citified suburb of Forest Hills. L. I., groundskeepers rolled, clipped and patted...
...Perry or if Shields could beat England's No. 2 dapper little Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, the U. S. had a fine chance to win the Davis Cup for the first time in eight years. In the other three matches, it was agreed that George Lott and Lester Stoefen could scarcely fail to demolish any doubles team England could put on the court; that Wood would probably beat Austin; and that Perry would certainly beat Shields. The draw scheduled both crucial singles matches for the first day of the series...