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Actor Dexter-who in his native Talmadge, Neb. answers to the name of Walter Fleischmann-got the role after 1,784 candidates had been interviewed and 493 tested. In training for three years, he smooches, smirks, tangoes, goes through the motions of re-enacting scenes from such Valentino favorites as The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He succeeds in looking like Valentino when the camera angle is right; most of the time, he looks like a jowly young man caught in a hopeless hoax...
Minor Sport H--Forrest L. Carter, Indianapolis, Ind.; Jan E. Jertson, Fairhaven, Mass.; Robert T. McConaughy, Sharonville, Ohio; George N. McNair, Jr., Farmington, Wash.; Christopher Martin, Saxtons River, Vt.; Byron B. Morton Jr., Elizabeth, N.J.; Winfred Overholser, Jr., Washington, D.C.; John W. Smith, Omaha, Neb.; Eric T. Sollee, West Newton, Mass.; Harry K. Ziel, McKees Rocks, Pa.; Richard D. Kahn, Manager, New York...
...Fine Print. In Grand Island, Neb., to show that people don't read what they sign, the Independent circulated a petition asking the city council, among other things, "to hang me by the neck until dead," got 35 signatures...
...winners in order of their total number of votes were as follows: Paul W. Mandel, of New York City and Lowell; Robert P. Hyde, of Belmont and Winthrop; Frederick V. Fortmiller, Omaha, Neb, and Elliot; Douglas M. Fouquet, Bayside, N.Y. and Dunster; Peter B. Taub, Larchmont, N.Y. and Lowell; Alvin Becker of Waltham and Adams; Robert E. Tomasello, of Bemont and Dudley; Richard R. Reynolds, Punxsudawney, Penn, and Leverett; Edmund J. Gilake, Jr. of Medford and Dunster; and James F. Draper, of Groton and Kirkland, Arthur H. Rohn, Villa Park, III, and Dunster, and David Harrison, Lakewood...
Died. Edmund P. Pillsbury, 37, vice president of Pillsbury (flour) Mills, Inc., Alfred D. Lindley, 43, socialite sportsman, and Dexter L. Andrews, 38, all Minneapolis business leaders; in the crash of a light plane piloted by Pillsbury; near Paxton, Neb...