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Nine years ago in Chicago a vaudeville trouper named Myrtle Vail, who with her husband the late George Damerel was once a headliner in the big-time two-a-day, conceived the notion that her worries and woes would make good radio fare. At the, time, Myrtle was finding billings hard to come by, and she didn't quite know how to support herself and her 19-year-old daughter Donna, who had done a bit of hoofing before things got tough. So she whipped together a script called Myrt & Marge, recounting the adventures of a mother & daughter...
...stamp last spring. From Botticelli's famed Primavera (Spring) it selected a detail: the lightly clad, swirling Three Graces. But their identity was transmogrified. The Post Office said they were North, Central and South America. Designed by William A. Roach, lettered in 14th-Century style by James T. Vail, the Primavera stamp, larger than the average, was well worth the 3? the Post Office asked...
...Rutgers' varsity eight: the second annual Dad Vail Regatta, No. 1 rowing event for minor-league college crews; outrowing eight other eights over the Henley distance (one mile and five-sixteenths); on the Connecticut River at Springfield, Mass. Marietta finished second, Springfield third. ∧Long-swatting little Ben Hogan of Fort Worth, Tex.: the third annual Goodall Round Robin golf tournament-in which each of 15 invited pros scores plus one for every hole he wins, minus one for every hole he loses to each of the other 14 with a score of plus 23; over Long Island...
...favorite pastime of Steamship Magnate Bruce Vail (Colin Clive) is tormenting his wife (Jean Arthur). When she threatens to put an end to his diversion by divorce, he sends his chauffeur (Ivan Lebedeff) to her rooms, plans to trap her in the servant's arms, nullifying the divorce under the English statute that the complainant in such a suit must remain blameless during the six months between the provisional and final decrees. In the next room Paul Dumond (Charles Boyer) hears the fracas, ends it by knocking out the chauffeur. When the obsessed husband and his witness enter, Dumond...
...catastrophe sequence comes when Irene and Dumond, hearing an innocent man has been arrested for Dumond's supposed crime, start back to Paris on a Vail liner making its maiden voyage. To imperil them. Tycoon Vail phones his captain to strive for a record crossing, in spite of pea-soup fog and icebergs. The disaster, supervised for seafaring technique by Sea Captain Frederick Fleugal and for special effects by James Basevi (San Francisco), is a reproduction of the sinking of the Titanic. The best shot in the picture-the horrible apparition of the fatal berg through...