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...Appointed Randolph Paul, ex-Treasury tax expert, to be $10,000-a-year presidential assistant; named Major General John H. Hilldring, regular Army director of Civil Affairs, to be an Assistant Secretary of State; Delaware attorney Josiah Marvel Jr. to be Minister to Denmark...
Divorced. Woolworth Donahue, 33, idle-rich grandson and heir of Frank Winfield Woolworth (F. W. Woolworth & Co.); by Gretchen Wilson Donahue, 32, ex-wife of John Randolph Hearst; after six years of marriage, three of separation, no children; in Las Vegas...
Elliott Roosevelt planned a U.S. lecture tour, and Winston Churchill's bumptious son Randolph reportedly had the same idea. (A possible brothers-under-the-skin act nobody would talk about: a debate between the two.) But first Elliott had to finish writing a book. It was about his father's role in world affairs, and "the story of my father's thinking...
Abilene Town (Jules Levey-United Artists) is just one more in a current series of Western omelettes. This time Randolph Scott is the fighting marshal and Ann Dvorak the beautiful, bad-tempered barroom singer. Against a background alive with neighing, gunfire and the sound of crashing wagons, Marshal Scott states the theme by drawling that thar ain't no justice in Abilene Town. He's dead right: hard-drinking cattlemen raid the village every few weeks, brawl in the bars and take pot shots at the God-fearing homesteaders who have settled on the town's outskirts...
Deep-voiced, leggy Ann Dvorak is an admirably put-together heroine. The same cannot be said of the prop furniture: it gets mixed up in Randolph's rough-&-tumble fights and falls apart before it is really...