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Died. Count Raoul de Roussy de Sales, 46, French journalist, lecturer, interpreter of current history (The Making of Tomorrow); after a long illness; in Manhattan. He was one of the most influential of De Gaulle's champions in the U.S., where he had lived since 1932. He was educated in Paris and in England, came to the U.S. to cover the New Deal for the Revue de Paris, worked as correspondent for Paris-Soir, Paris-Midi, L'Europe Nouvelle and Havas News Agency before the fall of France...
After all this, even John L. might need a buildup, but one look is reassuring. Director Raoul Walsh and Actor Bond have recreated him to the life. In training camps he alternately obliterates sparing partners and barrels of beer; childern follow him in the streets and in barroms strong men quail when he roars: "I can lick any man in the world." Partician Miss Smith feels his biceps and nearly swoons with delight. Even though Director Walsh and Gentleman Jim make a monkey out of him in the ring, his gymnasial fragrance lingers...
Married. Beryl Markham, aviatrix, first woman to fly the Atlantic alone from east to west, writer (West With the Night); and Raoul Schumacher, publisher's editor (he edited her book); day after she divorced Mansfield Markham of London; in Laramie...
...Duke" was hauling furniture around a set for Born Reckless when Director Raoul Walsh spotted him, ordered him for god's sake not to cut his hair, which had grown shaggy at the nape. Then "Duke" was renamed John Wayne, pushed ahead of some 82 other candidates for the juvenile lead in The Big Trail. He did very nicely with the part. Later he made a personal-appearance tour on which, to his embarrassment, he was required to keep his hillbilly hair in a rich fringe over his collar...
...served, but there is dancing to hot name bands, with pretty show girls and such movie stars as Bette Davis and Janet Gaynor waiting to be picked off as partners. On the walls are gay murals by the theater's top scene designers-Jo Mielziner, Donald Oenslager, Raoul Pène du Bois, Gertrude Lawrence, Eddie Cantor, the dancing De Marcos, the Quiz Kids with Tallulah Bankhead as Quizmaster, are part of the endless floor show. The food is good, and Producer Brock Pemberton, Novelist Carl Van Vechten, Actor Sam Jaffe are among the busboys. And the whole thing...