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...brains out. The rest, gigolos, rich nymphomaniacs, Fascist financiers, drunks, drift on toward perdition, a fate from which at the last moment a clean young U. S. newspaperman manages to save a clean young U. S. millionairess. De Luxe was first announced several years ago for production by the Provincetown Theatre as the sole work of Louis Bromfield who has lately been making a desperate assault on the U. S. Theatre. His Times Have Changed, an adaptation from the French, is currently struggling on Broadway. Promised soon is another collaboration, Here Today, Gone Tomorrow. Unhappily, stage-struck Mr. Bromfield...
...assembled through the years. Nobody could see the pictures last week, but from the names and reputations of the winners all the U. S. art world knew that the long-awaited rejuvenation of the National Academy was under way. Except for elderly, conservative Frederick Judd Waugh of Provincetown, Mass, who won, as he has before, the $500 Edwin Palmer memorial prize for marine painting (TIME, Dec. 17), other prize-winners were artists who would have been considered rank radicals by academicians of 25 years ago. Among them were...
...many years the talented Waugh family has lived in Provincetown, Mass. Son Coulton is a ship painter & illustrator and nautical expert. Daughter Gwenyth, a costume designer, is married to Artist James Floyd Clymer. The combined Waughs own 13 houses in Provincetown, operate on a section of Main Street known as Waughville, the Ship Model Shop, the Hooked Rug Shop & Hookery. As a hobby Artist Waugh likes carpentry, gardening and making souvenir boxes of sea shells. His prides are a pâpiermaché castle he once built for his children and a chandelier made of old whale bones...
Orders from Washington sent 30 Navy and Coast Guard boats and a fleet of private yachts scouring Massachusetts Bay for James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President. Nine hours later Sailor Roosevelt and six companions, blown off the course of a Gloucester-Provincetown race, put in at Portland, Me., in the yacht Black Arrow. Said Son James: "I don't know what there was to be upset over. The Black Arrow is as sound as a church. We just had a little blow and we hove...
...enormous eyes, blue. This combination caused Carl Laemmle Jr. to decline to hire her; he considered her appearance unattractive. Born in Lowell Mass., in 1908, Bette Davis grew up in Boston, went to Manhattan in 1927 to study acting under John Murray Anderson, got her start in a Provincetown Theatre production. After two seasons in Manhattan plays, she secured a Universal contract, playing bits until George Arliss selected her for The Man Who Played God (1932). Since then she has worked up to the position of star in pictures like So Big, The Rich Are Always With Us, Dark Horse...