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...Virginia (Paramount). Produced by Virginia-born Director Edward H. Griffith,* from a story he wrote with Virginia Van Upp, Virginia was filmed on the spot, in torrid, somnolent Albemarle County, where Thomas Jefferson lived and died. In spite of the labored accents of its non-Confederate cast (only Southern actor featured in Virginia is Tom Rutherford, a Richmond blue blood) its lines have an authentic ring, might have been copied down verbatim from the resentful speeches of Albemarle's land-loving inhabitants...
Divorced. Freeman F. Gosden, 41. Virginia-born tenor half of the radio team "Amos V Andy"; by Leta S. Gosden, 40; after twelve years' marriage; because he had become "sullen and morose"; in Los Angeles...
When LIFE'S editors, last February, decided to publish a close-up of Negro Champion Joe Louis, they looked about for a Negro journalist to write it. The man they picked was dimple-cheeked Earl Brown, 38-year-old, Virginia-born managing editor of Harlem's weekly Amsterdam News...
...Town. The afternoon Item was started as a cooperative venture in 1877, fell into the hands of West Virginia-born James Mcllhany Thomson 30 years later, while its editor was serving time in jail for libel. Publisher Thomson hired scholarly Marshall Ballard (who had been a fellow student at Johns Hopkins) to edit the Item...
Continuing her independent attitude toward the war, bone-dry, Virginia-born Lady Astor-who has so far: 1) demanded that boys under 20 be exempt from conscription; 2) seen her four sons (all over 20) join up-this week carried on. She planned to press the British Government to reintroduce the "Dutch Treat" rule of World War I, which, forcing people to buy their own drinks, protected men and women on duty "against hospitality by the public...