Word: marr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other manuscripts include: "Timoleon," John Marr and Other Sailors," "Billy Budd," "Jack Gentian," "The River," "Rammon the Enviable Isles," and "The Admiral of the White...
...establishment in 1913, to warrant its demise. The technicality of the law passed by the General Court with regard to the legal practice of people not members of the Massachusetts Bar formed an unwelcome obstacle to further service of this kind. As the Bureau is reestablished, supervised by Vernon Marr, the experienced Boston attorney, who will make appearances before the courts of law on its behalf, there should be no ignore curtailment of its activities...
...companies won exemption. To Sacramento went a handsome young proprietress of a beauty shop chain: stores selling wares "incidental to personal service" were exempted. That probably let out the dental parlor chain of "Painless Parker." Chief target remained the 1,274 stores of food chains, Safeway, Piggly Wiggly, Mac Marr, Pay'n Takit, but also hit were such chains as Woolworth, Kress, Newberry, Penney, Walgreen. The State Senate thumped the bill through 34-to-4. Then California shook as with an earthquake. Radio, billboard and newspaper advertising propaganda fought propaganda. The Hearst Press turned against the bill. All California...
Once married to a Los Angeles sportsman named Thomas Gallery, Zasu Pitts has two children: her own daughter, Ann, and the 10-year-old son of the late Barbara La Marr whom she arranged to adopt two days before Miss La Marr's death. Reconciled to the fact that audiences will always find her writhing hands, her quavering voice, even her tragic smile peculiarly funny, she now sticks to comic roles, will presently appear in Maids a la Mode...
...Paul Bern was a curious exception. He lived quietly in a house secluded from the rest of Hollywood in Benedict Canyon. He was noted not for his affaires with film actresses but for platonic friendships, apparently based on hypersensitive sympathy for the misfortunes of unhappy celebrities. When Barbara La Marr was dying, she summoned Paul Bern to her sickroom. Mabel Normand did the same thing. He became known, jocosely, as "the little confessor of Hollywood." Platonic friendships are even more suspect in Hollywood than elsewhere. Nevertheless Paul Bern's reputation as a kindly, disinterested bachelor was such that even...