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Sidney Thompson Fairchild Fellowship: Walter J. Cheate, of Los Angeles, Calif, LL.B. University of Southern California...
Daughter of a Chinese laundryman named Sam Sing Tsong, Anna May Wong's real name is Wong Liu Tsong (Frosted Yellow Willows). She grew up on Flower Street in Los Angeles' chop-suey section, attended Los Angeles Central High School. Her ambition to become an actress sprouted when she caught sight of the late Alma Rubens in an elevator. Sam Sing Tsong objected when his daughter got extra jobs on location scenes in Chinatown. Was it not true that every time a picture is taken, its subject loses part of his soul? Nonetheless, Anna May Wong carried...
...Los Angeles, Calif...
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...
Divorced. Dorothy Emmogene Grey, 23; from Romer Zane Grey, 26, son of the novelist; in Los Angeles...