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Next day State's Attorney John A. Swanson announced: "I have officially been given to understand that definite evidence will be made available for the grand jury in [the Lingle] murder." Before the week was out, police sleuths identified the pistol that killed Lingle as having been sold a few months ago to one Frank Foster, dapper member of the Capone "mob." Foster was missing from Chicago. A nationwide search began to find him, to ask him who may have used...
...Devil's Holiday (Paramount). Director Edmund Goulding usually writes his own stories and has the reputation of being able to make the stars who work for him perform brilliantly even when they have given no previous indication of brilliance. After bossing Gloria Swanson in her most recent and best picture The Trespasser, he has done an even more painstaking job for Nancy Carroll, whose previous film experience has embraced few parts more taxing than the leads in Honey and Sweetie. In The Demi's Holiday she plays a little adventuress who, in cahoots with a salesman of farm equipment, sets...
...White Cargo (British). Several U. S. picture companies wanted to produce this, but Will Hays, supervisor of cinema morals, made clear that he would not sanction it. With W. Somerset Maugham's Rain it was salient on his black list. At last United Artists made Rain with Gloria Swanson, calling it Sadie Thompson; Hays permitted its release, but when producers pointed to this precedent as an argument for letting them bring out White Cargo, even suggesting that it could be disguised under its original title, Hell's Playground, he stood firm. White Cargo, in his opinion, was worse...
Cinemagoers who saw Gloria Swanson in The Trespasser (TIME, Nov. 11) were surprised when she sang the tawdry theme song in a voice exceedingly pleasant. Hungarian Franz Lehar, venerable comic opera composer (The Merry Widow, Gypsy Love, The Count of Luxemburg) saw The Trespasser in Berlin. For two years he had consistently refused to write music for cinema production, but so impressed was he with the Swanson singing that last week he agreed to compose music for Queen Kelly, an unlucky Swanson vehicle- started two years ago, exhausting two directors (Von Stroheim and Goulding) and millions of dollars, still unfinished...
...TRESPASSER (Gloria Swanson)- What money does to marriage, effectively acted...