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Died. Donald van Rensselaer Freeman, 29, managing editor of Vanity Fair since 1926; of a fractured skull received when his roadster hit a traffic stanchion; in Mount Kisco, N. Y. He was responsible for the presence in the U. S. of the great German film Maedchen in Uniform (TIME, Oct. 3) for which he wrote the U. S. subtitles...
...price war began last week. But no sooner had the new Ford prices been announced than Chevrolet made slashes of from $10 to $55. Pontiac followed with reductions of from $20 to $50. In the higher brackets, Hupmobile made $100 to $200 reductions. Willys-Overland, with its six-cylinder roadster $45 under the Ford V-eight, said it would enter no price war. Rockne, Graham-Paige, Continental-de Vaux all said no price changes were contemplated...
...Roadster Standard Sedan Coupe...
...fiend nor a drunkard; he seldom abuses critics in print and he made his stage debut at 15. Like his brother, he later tried to be a painter. Then he took to the piano and became a competent composer. He sips three malted milks a day, drives a Ford roadster, and merely says "My God!" when irritated. Two years ago he decided to stop acting and become a director. He made five or six pictures, including the successful Madame X, before he was tempted by the fat, bibulous part of Stephen Ashe in A Free Soul...
...Brooklyn, Rex R. Fairbanks, 29, was hailed by a young woman in a roadster, asked the way to Park Plaza. The young woman also invited him for a ride, emphasized the invitation with a pistol. In Prospect Park she made Rex R. Fairbanks strip to his underclothes, get out. From one police station to another went Rex R. Fairbanks, in underclothes and hat. unable, for lack of definite police jurisdiction, to find sympathy or help in recovering the money, watch and ring he had lost with his clothes. Finally he went home. In the morning the police wrote...