Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cohan's support is pleasing throughout, although perhaps the three leading women enunciate a little too clearly and speak a little too earnestly, in contrast with the star's jolly abandon. But Joseph Leggitt, acted by Charles D. Brown, deserves a palm along with his colleague. Calvin's alter ago in the play, he portrays to perfection all a friend's loyalty, banter, conniving, assistance, and well-intended blunders...
Married. "Prince" Serge Mdivani, sleekest of Russia's "Marrying Mdivanis," divorced husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri, Songstress Mary McCormic; and his ex-sister-in-law, "Princess" Louise Astor Van Men Mdivani, wealthy Manhattan socialite, onetime wife of the late "Prince" Alexis Mdivani; in Palm Beach...
Sued. Florence E. Dolan Willys, 38, second wife of the late John North Willys, automobile manufacturer, who inherited a share (estimated at $3,500,000) of his estate; by Mrs. Virginia de Landa, his daughter; in West Palm Beach, Fla. In her petition, Mrs. de Landa charged Mrs. Willys with divorcing her first husband on fraudulent grounds, asked that her marriage to Willys be declared null & void, that she be enjoined from claiming any part of Willys' estate...
...Poor Joe" About to depart for a vacation at Palm Beach, Hamlet Smith took a brief curtain to reply to Senator Robinson. As if weeping over the skull of a departed Yorick, he lamented: "Poor Joe -I'm sorry for him; they put him on a tough spot. He did the best he knew how, but it was no answer. As I said in my speech . . . there is only one man who should try to answer me. . . .* I was an 'Unhappy Warrior' to hear him read off a speech over which he stumbled so that I felt...
Married. Frank Finley Merriam, 70, Governor of California; and Jessie Stewart Lipsey, 66, onetime Iowa acquaintance; in Palm Springs, Calif...