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...most luxurious bordello which the U.S. ever saw was Chicago's Everleigh Club. It was run by the Virginia-born Everleigh sisters, Minna and Ada, two corseted women who insisted on being treated as gentlewomen at all times...
Author Hutchinson takes care, in a note, to state that he has no sympathy with John's point of view. Minna is presented - thereby comfortably erasing the possibility that any such good beings reside in Germany - as no longer really a German, but "one of us." The essential gentleness portrayed throughout is so birth-strangled by genteelism as to be a little blue in the face. But Gordon Brecque does emerge, against all these handicaps, as a good priest, a sympathetic family man and a rather touching figure...
...sons does creditably in the Navy and both daughters do war work, but John, Gordon's eldest, is an uncompromising pacifist, and Minna, the maid, is German. On those counts and because his sermons are earnestly gentle rather than militant, Gordon suffers a good deal: cuts in the street, a dwindled congregation, anonymous letters, a stone through his study window. Minna commits suicide. John dies, of pneumonia, in prison...
...other Hollywood leading man of George Brent's stature appeared in so unassuming a picture, it would suggest that either his studio or his agent was quarreling with him or that he had begun to slip. In fact George Brent is on excellent terms with his agent, Minna Wallis (sister of Warner's production chief, Hal Wallis), Warner is happily paying him $3,000 a week, and his popularity was never greater. His willingness to work in almost any kind of picture is only one element in Cinemactor Brent's reputation as a man of mystery...
Died. William Preston Johnson Gibson, 57, famed oldtime society playboy, son of Louisiana's late Senator Randall Lee Gibson, nephew of the late Chief Justice Edward Douglass White; of heart disease, complicated by uremia; in The Bronx. He successively married and was divorced by Minna Field, niece of Chicago's late Marshall Field; Grace McMillan Jarvis, granddaughter of Michigan's late Senator James McMillan; Mrs. Beatrice Rogers Benjamin Pratt, granddaughter of the late Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers; and Evelyn Harris Spaulding of Haverhill, Mass. He squandered $4,000,000 of his wives' money on parties...