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Born. To Gloria Swanson, 31, film actress, and Michael Farmer, 29, Irish sportsman; a daughter; in London. Weight: 7 Ib. 2 oz. Name: Michele Bridget. Said Actress Swanson: "I'm so excited I can hardly talk. ... It was all so sudden." She was illegally married Aug. 16 last year, was remarried in November after her divorce from her third husband, Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudraye, became final...
Naturalized. 'Michael Sinnot (Mack Sennett), 42, film producer, bathing girl fancier; in Hollywood. Born in Canada, a blacksmith's son with operatic aspirations, he emigrated to the U. S., became a boilermaker and choir-singer. After going to Hollywood in 1911, he developed such stars as Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Wallace Beery, Ben Turpin, originated the cinema custard...
...night the U. S. delegation's office was entered, Delegate Gibson's desk was ransacked and Senator Swanson's locked briefcase was slit open, nothing taken. This secret the U. S. delegation kept until, on a subsequent night last week, the breaking and entering was repeated (again no takings). Peace Man Gibson reported to the police...
Flowers & Farewell? With Messrs. Gibson and Davis already in Europe, Delegates Woolley and Swanson sailed from New York fortnight ago on the President Harding. A troop of advisers, technical experts, aides and clerks accompanied them. Also, several peace organizations sent along unofficial delegates of their own. Peace petitions were signed and loaded aboard. When the ship sailed Aviatrix Ruth Nichols flew round the masts clad in a purple leather jacket, went aboard at Quarantine and presented Delegate Woolley with two large bunches of spring flowers. The Federal Council of Churches gave the delegates its blessing and called for a nation...
...delegates Swanson and Woolley met their two colleagues at Geneva last week, a swarm of nearly 1,000 delegates and representatives of other nations were also converging on League headquarters. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi headed the Italian delegation. André Tardieu led the Frenchmen. Chairman of the whole Conference was sober "Uncle Arthur" Henderson of Britain. Hopeful and variously important personages crammed every hotel room in Geneva which had erected a special building for the Conference and presented it to the League...