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...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 chit-chat writers, who had been attentive to Jean Harlow...
...late Cinemactress Mabel Normand, whose career suffered when her name was mentioned in connection with the mysterious murder of Director William Desmond Taylor, and later when her chauffeur shot Courtland Dines, wealthy stockbroker...
Died. Mabel Normand Cody. 33, onetime cinemactress; at Monrovia, Calif.; of tuberculosis...
...Angeles. Edward F. Sands, 34, 5 ft 5 in., for the murder of William Desmond Taylor, cinema director, whose butler he was. Questioned in this case were Cinemactresses Mabel Normand, last to see Taylor alive, and Mary Miles Minter whose lingerie and love letters were found in the Taylor apartment...
...Criticized for bad synchronization in recent films, producers denied their technical incompetence by confessing that "doubles" had sung and talked for certain performers: for Richard Barthelmess (Weary River), one Frank Withers; for Louise Brooks (The Canary Murder Case), one Margaret Livingston. ¶ In Beverly Hills Mabel Normand, sick with tuberculosis, was not told, for fear that she would worry, that her husband, Lew Cody, was also ill. In a San Bernardino health resort Cody, in bed with a nervous breakdown following influenza, was kept ignorant, for a similar reason, that there was anything the matter with his wife...