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Died. Wells Hawks, 71, longtime press-agent of the old school; in Pomona, N.Y. In the early 1900s he publicized Julia Marlowe, Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, popularized the Mary Pickford label: "America's Sweetheart...
...Wall Streeter figured he was dead right. Paramount had just stumbled out of bankruptcy without appearing to shed any of the overgrown ineptitude that had put it in there. Adolph Zukor put Paramount together in 1912. Its roots were in the days when nickelodeons were gold mines and Mary Pickford made her first $20,000 a year. An expansionist of such resolution that the trade began calling him a monopolist, Zukor bought stars and studios until Paramount and Hollywood were synonymous...
David O. Selznick paid $1,200,000 for a United Artists partnership with Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Alexander Korda, promised to make $20,000,000 worth of pictures, got a kiss from Mary. Ruth Etting's husband, Myrl Alderman, dropped his $225,000 damage suit against her ex-husband, Martin Snyder, who shot him four years ago. Billy Rose sued the Canadian National Exhibition for $500,000 for calling its summer water show an "Aquacade." Richard Krebs ("Jan Valtin") was sued for $50,000 by a woman who said she spent more than a year typing and researching...
Longstreet was still defending himself when he died in 1904. Last week on Seminary Ridge, on the site of his indecision, ground was broken for a monument to him. U.S. Army officers, his widow, Mary Pickford, a Confederate veteran took part in the ceremony; thunder crashed and lightning slashed the sky; troops re-enacted Pickett's famed charge. Southerners shook their heads. The Baltimore Sun mourned: Why could the monument not have been put up at Manassas, or Antietam, or the Wilderness, scenes of Longstreet's undoubted generalship...
...seven weeks. Assistant Joe Breen went to his bedside, Columnist Louella Parsons rumored his retirement. ∙∙ Gloria Swanson finished a picture she hoped meant a comeback. ∙∙ Oldtime Comedian Raymond Hatton got a new part, had the same hope. ∙∙Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks No. 2 (Mary Pickford) and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks No. 3 (Lady Sylvia Ashley) flew to New York together, along with Norma Shearer, whom Ronald Balcom has been escorting when he wasn't with Lady Ashley. ∙∙ Greta Garbo, who started the long-lived longhair fad, had her locks cut to within three...