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...story, they solved Paramount's problem of finding a second story with which to follow the symposium-picture, If I Had a Million. The Woman Accused has compromising situations by Ursula Parrott, faux pas by Polan Banks, neurotics by Vicki Baum, plumbing by Vina Delmar, further ingredients by Rupert Hughes, Zane Grey, Irvin S. Cobb, Gertrude Atherton, J. P. McEvoy, Sophie Kerr. It turns out to be a surprisingly unified but solidly routine story about a pretty woman (Nancy Carroll) who, to spare the feelings of the man she loves (Gary Grant), has to murder the villain (Louis Calhern...
...Iveagh estate, comprising 78 acres, and over 1,150 houses around Earl's Court subway station in west London, was sold to a syndicate last week for $3,430,000. Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness ("Guinness is Good for You!"), Earl of Iveagh and Dublin brewer, bought the estate from the executors of the fifth Baron Kensington...
...WOMAN ACCUSED-Long & Smith ($1.50). Collaborated mystery tale, a chapter each written by Vicki Baum, Gertrude Atherton, Rupert Hughes, Zane Grey...
This is one of those novels of which Mr. Rupert Hughes would say, as he did in his introduction to "Babbitt," that the author has so portrayed his subject that the reader says: "There, but for the grace of God, go I." Of course this is utterly wrong, for no reader identifies himself with the hero-cad to that degree, nor is the hero, who is as mentally inert as either of these, ever mirrored from life; vile cads and pure heroes do not occur full-blown in life. The characterization strikes one as incomplete and unreal for that very...
Three years ago the Lederle Laboratories began producing Laidlaw-Dunkin preparations in the U. S. Use and success have been widespread. Inoculating 163 purebred pups, Cornell's Dr. Charles Rupert Stockard found 92% immune on exposure to infection, 4% exhibiting only slight symptoms of the disease. Only three were severely affected by inoculation...