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Included in the complete cast are: Walter Aikman '51; James R. Blake '48; Francis S. MacNutt '46; Richard Murphy '51; Wilfred M. Pickles '48; John A. Swanson 2G; William Whitehead '50; Kay Matthews, Radcliffe '51; Francena Thomas '49; Patricia Troxell '49; Natalie Basso, Radcliffe '49, and Mary Francis McGrath '50 as members of the chorus...
...feel the full impact of the new silhouette, it was already provoking some violent opinions. The New York Daily News's inquiring reporter served up some samples. Herbert Bayard Swope thought the longer dresses neither revealing nor concealing-just dull. Onetime Cinemactress and Clothes Horse Gloria Swanson said: "They flatter those whose knees do not stand leg-revealing clothes." Look's Mrs. Gardner Cowles: "They make women look long, lean and restricted...
...Trespasser, one of Hollywood's earliest (1929) sound movies, Director Edmund Goulding hit a snag: no matter how Gloria Swanson said the line ("Take him back, I don't want him"), it sounded corny. Instead of changing the line, he took the Hollywood way out: he diverted the audience's attention with background music. Goulding thought up a tune himself, whistled it to an arranger. His tune, to which Elsie Janis later wrote lyrics, became Love, Your Spell Is Everywhere...
...Named a Republican small-businessman, William Chapman Foster of
New York, to succeed Democrat Alfred Schindler, resigned, as Under Secretary
of Commerce.
...Gloria Swanson, svelte survivor of the silent screen and five marriages, survived a New York City taxicab crash that bowled one of the cabs over. Injuries to Siren Swanson: an egg on the brow, a skewgee...