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Married. Grant Wood, Iowa artist (American Gothic, Dinner For Threshers -TIME, Dec. 24); and Mrs. Sara Sherman Maxon, music teacher in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where both grew up; in Minneapolis...
...next seventeen nominees were ranked as follows: Robert Sullivan, John H. Gardiner, George F. Roberts, Frank Keppel, Richard O. Ulin, John L. Dampeer, Cortney C. Smith, Peter T. Brooks, William Batt, William J. Clothier, Sherman P. Cotton, Henry R. Ames, Albert Stickney, Jr., Herbert L. Furse, Peter P. Hale, Aaron J. Himelhoch, and Dario C. Berizzi...
Night Life of the Gods (Universal), directed by the late Lowell Sherman, is an adaptation of the novel in which the late Thorne Smith played with the idea of a scientist who discovered how to turn humans into stone and statues into people, used his trick to revive a group of mythological effigies in a museum of art. Out of respect for the Legion of Decency, Director Sherman and his associates were compelled to clip their wings in following some of Author Smith's imaginative flights. Obviously on the screen it was impossible to have the gods and goddesses...
Trustee Newton Diehl Baker, who proposed Dr. Bowman, knew him after the War as the chief territorial specialist of Woodrow Wilson's Peace Commission. Trustee Walter Sherman Gifford (A. T. & T.) had been his classmate at Harvard. The trustees were looking for a young man. Dr. Bowman was 56, but he had the looks of 46, the energy...
...Creede he set up business in a modest way, running a shell game. His organizing ability, nerve and personal charm soon made him boss of that lawless town. When the Sherman Silver Act was repealed and the bottom dropped out of the silver market, Soapy went back to Denver and started a high-class gambling house. He called it "an educational institution! The famous Keeley institute provides a cure for the drinking habit. At the Tivoli I have a cure for the gambling habit. The man who steps into my place is faced with the sign, 'Caveat Emptor...