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...director, he has made some of Hollywood's biggest successes: Dawn Patrol (first big flying film), Scar face (which started the gangster picture cycle), Sergeant York. First married to Athole Shearer (Norma's sister), Howard Hawks was divorced by her in 1940, and last year married a young scenario writer, Nancy Gross, lives with her on a new 100-acre ranch in the hills west of Los Angeles...
George Sanders divides cinemactors into three classes: "business, ham or glamor." His typical ham is "my friend Larry Olivier. He is sincere and has a conviction that what he is doing has great importance." Typical glamor actress is Norma Shearer ("glamor attracts the star who no longer needs the money but doesn't want to retire just yet"). Typical businessman: George Sanders, who drifted into films for the fat pay checks, may just as coolly drift out of them again...
Married. Cinemactress Norma Shearer, 38; and San Francisco-born Skier Martin Arrouge, 28, ex-instructor at Sun Valley; she for the second time, he for the first; in Beverly Hills, Calif. He formerly taught her son and daughter skiing. She is the widow of Cineproducer Irving Thalberg, who left her and their children nearly $4,500,000. Before the marriage Skier Arrouge signed an agreement waiving his rights to a share of her estate...
...Private Shearer was no radio engineer. He thought he was off the air. Leaning back, he murmured into a live mike an anthem of his own: "Thank the Lord. H. V. Kaltenborn...
...Private Shearer, frantically trying to modulate the pundit's inexplicable emphases, Kaltenborn sounded "like a conga drum; one, two, three . . . boom!" After 13 minutes the pundit was through and the private was exhausted. The announcer ushered Kaltenborn gracefully off the air, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, our national anthem...