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Fabulous, enigmatic Cinemactress Greta Garbo (Gustaffson) began a vacation journey back to her native Sweden and the castle she bought from Ivar Kreuger's estate. In her old limousine she drove from Hollywood to Pasadena, where she hid from prying eyes in a bush with four bodyguards before making a spectacular dash for the Santa Fe train. Outside Chicago, she alighted in the railroad yards, set police and railroad men in a dither getting her a cab. Her next appearance was at Chicago's Union Station where she arrived ten minutes before train time, peeked around a corner...
From a refrigerated crypt in Pasadena, Calif., undertakers removed the frozen body of William Wrigley Jr., found it unchanged in appearance since they put it there three years ago. An ambulance sped it to the S. S. Catalina which bore it out to Santa Catalina Island. Near the town of Avalon an obelisk-topped mausoleum has been two years building. There William Wrigley Jr. was finally buried...
Alfred Grosjean of Pasadena invented a sharp-angled violin, which is tuned three musical steps higher than an ordinary violinand and which he says reproduces the "celestial" or "seraphic" tones of ancient instruments. He calls it a "violaeol," a word made up from violin and aeolian. Miss Violet Sheldon was interested...
Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif, the biggest crowd (85,000) packed a stadium decorated with bunches of flowers to watch the game between Stanford and Alabama. Alabama's Halfback Millard (''Dixie") Howell gained 273 yd. His longest run (67 yd.) made one Alabama touchdown while his phenomenally accurate passes, mostly to End Don Hutson, paved the way to two more. Swamped by three touchdowns and a field goal in the second quarter, Stanford marched bravely to a touchdown in the third but still had no defense for the Alabama passes that scored again in the last. Alabama...