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Since the arrival of talkies, most of Hollywood's new female celebrities have been imported either from the Manhattan stage or from European cinema. Not so Karen Morley. Christened Mabel Linton in Ottumwa, Iowa, she went to Los Angeles when she was 13, attended Holly wood High School. After her sophomore year at the University of California at Los Angeles she joined the Pasadena Com munity Playhouse. When Director Clarence Brown was casting male actors for Inspiration, he asked Karen Morley, hired as an extra, to read Greta Garbo's lines. She did it well enough to get a screen...
...face belonged to one Albert Nye Roughton, 54, U. S. citizen. Worn, wrinkled, penniless, he had tramped from Ottumwa, Iowa, to Washington to tell his story. He had served aboard the U. S. S. Dixie during the Spanish War, was thus entitled to a pension. The brand on his brow he got from the Turks in 1915. Aboard a British Merchantman running the Turkish blockade into Asia Minor, he had been captured, mistaken for a spy. The Turks had marked his forehead with their own Spider of Death and Germany's Double Eagle. Then they imprisoned...
Wallace Russell Harper, of Ottumwa, Iowa, was elected First Marshal of the Class of 1930 by an overwhelming majority. He prepared for Harvard at the Ottumwa High School, and during his college career has been stellar fullback on the football team, a member of the basketball squad, and president of his class when a Sophomore...
...Milton Gildes, J. H. '31 Center 20 183 6.0 Boston Latin Gilligan, T. W. '31 Back 20 182 6.0 Newton High Ginman, W. K. '32 Guard 20 178 5.11 Muskegon High Harding, V. M. '31 End 31 175 6.0 Exeter Harper, W. R. '30 Back 19 173 5.9 Ottumwa High Huguley, A. W., Jr. '31 Back 20 180 6.2 Milton Kuehn, G. M. '32 Tackle 19 190 6.2 Exeter Levin, H. L. '30 Tackle 21 197 6. Boston Latin Lewis, G. L., Jr. '30 Tackle 20 188 6. Exeter Mason, T. F. '30 Back 22 170 6. Milton Mays...
...Newton High Ginman, W. K. '32 Guard 20 178 5.11 Muskegon High Gleason, R. F. '32 Back 21 170 5.11 Worcester Greeley, D. McL. '31 Back 21 165 5.11 Lexington High Harding, V. M. '31 End 21 175 6.0 Exeter Harper, W. R. '30 Back 19 173 5.9 Ottumwa High Huguley, A. W., Jr. '31 Back 20 180 6.2 Milton Kuehn, G. M. '32 Tackle 19 190 6.2 Exeter Levin, H. L. '30 Tackle 21 197 6. Boston Latin Lewis, G. L., Jr. '30 Tackle 20 188 6. Exeter Mason, T. F. '30 Back 22 170 6. Milton Mays...