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Died. Woodbridge Strong ("Woody") Van Dyke II, 53, ace cinedirector (The Thin Man, Marie Antoinette, Trader Horn, White Shadows of the South Seas), tireless tippler, practical jokester; in Brentwood, Calif. A master of the tools of his trade, he directed everything from serials to spectacles. He shot the supercolossal Marie Antoinette in 67 days, The Thin Man in 17. He called Greta Garbo "kid," joined every organization in sight, including the Elks, the I.W.W., the Masons, the Socialist Party, the Navajo and Nez Perce tribes...
...produced, and the fact that he taught French Modernists Georges Rouault and Henri Matisse in their youth, also British Painter Sir John Lavery, astonishingly little is known about Adolphe William Bouguereau. He was born at La Rochelle, France in 1825, clerked in Bordeaux under his father, an olive oil trader, attended Bordeaux's Ecole des Beaux-arts...
...tribesman. She has gone to Libreville to spend the night with the Governor and put him in a good mood for the trial. Deftly, coolly, Author Simenon makes the finale a freezing picture of a colonial court in action. When Timar hurries to court to denounce his mistress, a trader informs him: "Out here white folk hang together." In a farcical trial the framed Negro is left to his fate. Timar, half-crazy with his experience, is shipped blathering back to France...
...Happy: A Preface to Morons by Walter B. Pipkin, Pfui D., Tristram Coffin, a finespun obituary by Edwinson Arlington Cemetry, Black Majesty by Dark van Moron, The Life of Joseph Wood Peacock by his uncle Doc van Doren, and Training the Giant Pander by quaint old Trader van Horen." Concludes Satirist Wilson: "And there was also Granville van Arven and his League of American Vipers, but that is another snory...
John Bracken, the shrewdest practical politician western Canada ever produced, was presented last week with leadership of Canada's Conservative Party. A free trader and Canadian Canadian (as distinguished from English Canadians, French Canadians, Scottish Canadians, etc.), Bracken took over on his own terms from the traditionally high-tariff, pro-Empire Tories. For good measure he forced them to change the party name from Conservative to Progressive-Conservative...