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First and most famed sob-sister in the U. S., Mrs. Bonfils is known to readers of the Hearst syndicate as Winifred Black but to readers of the San Francisco Examiner she is "Annie Laurie." Nearly 50 years a Hearstling, she dictates an average of nine articles a week-six "heart & home" pieces for the syndicate, three or more "Annie Laurie" columns for the Examiner. Much of her work is done from her bed. Over her bedroom mantel hangs a faded old photograph inscribed: "To my dear friend and associate, Winifred Black Bonfils, from her sincere admirer, William Randolph Hearst...
...Dark Angel (Samuel Goldwyn) is a literate and tastefully arranged version of the celebrated sob-cinema in which Vilma Banky and Ronald Colman committed assault & battery on the emotions of the U. S. public in 1925. It is notable for the fine acting of its three attractive principals, a superior screen script and a climax which deserves a place on that roll of honor and profit which includes such classics as the life-preserver sequence in Cavalcade, the dance of the coffee rolls in The Gold Rush, the heroine's suicide in Anna Karenina...
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Appearing on sports pages along with pictures of himself, interminable sob stories, compliments from New York's Mayor LaGuardia, statistics of his life earnings, and his adopted daughter's views on Paris fashions, this letter last week contained the gist of a story that has preoccupied U. S. sports editors since the baseball season ended last October. It was George Herman Ruth's answer to the offer...
...Oregonian's 92.500 readers understand what had happened to their newspaper in the past month. Still dazed were they from that November morning when they saw. for the first time, a picture at the top of Page One. It illustrated not a world calamity but an ordinary sob-story...