Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proved an expensive luxury. With the first pinch of Depression, Pola Negri decided to get rid of her handsome Prince Serge. While Mae Murray was pondering whether to divorce her David, he and Brother Serge struck oil back of her bath house at Venice, Calif. They organized the Pacific Shore Oil Co. with Actress Murray putting up most of the cash. Stock was sold to every available member of the cinema colony. Divorced by Pola Negri, Serge's second venture was to marry Chicago Opera Singer Mary McCormic...
...suit for separate maintenance, got an order attaching Serge's Los Angeles bank account last week, found it empty. Joining forces, the two Hollywood Princesses inspired a stockholders meeting which ousted the Princes from their oil company directorships, elected Princess Mary's lawyer president of Pacific Shore Oil and Princess Mae's lawyer vice president...
...North Arlington, N. J. last week the residents of River Road sat in the street and on the banks of the dirty Passaic River to watch their children play. Some of the youngsters scampered half-naked about the street, others were swimming in the river or lolling on the shore in front of a grimy brick factory where Atlantic Pyroxylin Waste Co. sorted celluloid. Along River Road. Mrs. Josephine Latone pushed her way through the throng of noisy youngsters, nodding to her neighbors, jabbering at her husband, James. She turned toward him to gesticulate...
...river, two boys in a boat heroically rescued a score of drowning persons. One of the boys, Rosario Macaluso, 15, plunged into the water, grasped a girl and an old man by the hair, pulled them to safety. Then he towed a woman to shore, and while she screamed hysterically for her baby girl, dived after the drowning child and saved...
...finest publicity the old Palmer House ever had was provided by Potter Palmer's wife. From her great castellated mansion on Lake Shore Drive she drove Chicago society for 40 years. There she entertained Edward of Wales for whose favor as Edward VII of Britain she later waged mighty social campaigns in London. Potter Palmer took little part in his beauteous wife's gyrations, often slipped away from levees to spend an evening with his cronies. His mile of State Street real estate grew vastly more important than the hotel. The present Palmer House, a leading commercial hotel...