Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...separated since 1925, charged that the portrait was intended to be of herself. She sued for $200,000 libel. Harper & Bros., publishers of the novel, moved that Mrs. Lewisohn's complaint be dismissed. Last week Justice Peter Schmuck of the New York State Supreme Court, ruling on this motion, said: "Although for the most part the book is the gibberish ego of a selfish sentimentalist, and . . . the feverish exhalations of a perverted and disappointed conceit against an individual in particular and society and law generally, and cannot seriously affect the opinion of rational individuals, yet since the words are patently...
Calvin Coolidge, autobiographer for Cosmopolitan magazine, interviewed in Manhattan last week, was asked if he liked to write. "I don't," he said. "Oh, I don't find it so difficult to sit and write about something that I know very well, such as my own life, but a career of writing...
Florenz ("Follies") Ziegfeld Jr. let it be known last week that he and Cinemagnate Samuel Goldwyn had formed the Ziegfeld-Goldwyn Corp., which would start next January to produce "talkies" with the Ziegfeld tang and glamor, the Goldwyn experience. Said Mr. Ziegfeld: "I am going to do for the screen what I have done for the stage." Of the stage he said: "There is too much dirt and nakedness in revues nowadays, and the public is about fed up on them. . . . The sketches now used as black-outs? are the sort that in pre-Prohibition days found their origin...
Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, Chicago gangman now jailed for one year in Philadelphia, once met Charles B. Cochrane, famed London theatre man. Last week in London Manager Cochrane said: "I asked Capone if he were going to see a certain musical show. He replied that he never went to musical shows and that his favorite dramatists are George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward and Shakespeare...
...visiting golfers from the U. S., Canada, France, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, the Malay States. Edward of Wales watched for a while, then amused himself 'by practicing some drives of his own, employing the methods taught him last month by British Open Champion Walter Hagen. Said he: "At last I have learned to play golf," but he did not enter the tournament...