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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...
...told that he would not be needed. Last week, in the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills, L. I., Allison got a chance to show how he felt about a team on which he had not been considered good enough to play. First he beat huge, handsome Lester Stoefen of California, in a match that took most of an afternoon and part of the next. Then he polished off the No. 1 Davis Cup singles player, towheaded Sidney Wood, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. By that time, the other two members of the Davis Cup team were already...
...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...