Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THIRD ACT IN VENICE-Sylvia Thompson-Little, Brown...
Great novelists live with their characters; lesser ones pay calls. Not a great novelist but a good one, Sylvia Thompson is an adept at taking her leave, never embarrasses her characters or her readers by staying with them too long at a stretch. Third Act in Venice, her latest (and ninth) novel, is a brilliant exhibition of her episodic power, her knowledge of how to be absolutely tactful though relatively true...
...Blue Grass country); as a feature picture it is entertaining, little more. It is the familiar story of book larnin's invasion of the back woods. The grizzled mountaineers fight and live and love after the fashion of "Esquire's" variety, and are somehow trying to one's credulity. Sylvia Sidney, as the barefoot lass who succumbs to the winning ways of the furriner from the city (Fred MacMurray) and forsakes Mammy and Pappy for the bosoms of the edjicated, is attractive in her round-faced way, but is more in her element when she finally turns to honest...
Seeking Divorce. Actress Sylvia Sidney Cerf, 25; from Bennett A. ("Beans") Cerf, 37, Manhattan publisher (Random House, Inc.); in Los Angeles. Charge: cruelty...
Married. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (ne Ullman), 52, cinemactor; and Lady Ashley (Sylvia Hawkes), 52, onetime musicomedienne; after a round-the-world romance; in Paris. U. S. Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus was a witness. In 1934 Lord Ashley divorced his wife on charges of misconduct with Fairbanks; month later Mary Pickford divorced Fairbanks for mental cruelty...