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Henry Woodfin Grady, eloquent editor of the Atlanta Constitution in the 1880s, was the first great promoter of an "industrial South." Day after death cut short his campaign at 39-December 23, 1889-a boy was born to the poor but genteel Weaver family in Eatonton, Ga. Like many another Southern family, they named their child Henry Grady. Today Promoter Henry Woodfin Grady's vision of an industrial South is finally approaching reality and Henry Grady Weaver is chief promoter of a new industrial concept. He is head of the Customer Research Staff of General Motors Corp...
...country. The rest of the picture divides its time between the brilliant comic improvisation of the greatest Hamlet of his era as a bibulous, backslapping, vote-getting genius and a painfully routine ro mance between a homespun football coach (George Murphy) and the Governor's amiable secretary (Marjorie Weaver). Typical shot: Gabby Harrigan, having agreed to let the outcome of his Senatorial race depend on the big game gloomily watching State's fabulously effective girl dropkicker (Joan Davis) miss a crucial field goal...
...Proviso township, near Chicago, Oscar Atkins, who had lived 17 days in a grave five feet deep in a vacant lot, clambered up, peevishly took down his sign MAN BURIED ALIVE, Ten Cents a Look. In a vacant lot two blocks off, Mrs. Marion Weaver had also dug a grave, had put up a sign GIRL BURIED ALIVE, was taking away all of Oscar Atkins' customers. Two miles away, Lester Mclntyre, buried alive 21 days, clambered out when it started to rain. Said Lester McIntyre: "My grave leaks...
...gets around the Riviera that a millionaire in tramp's clothing has 1,000,000 francs to bestow for one kind deed, a wave of benevolence envelops every mudlark and ragamuffin in the South of France. But to the real millionaire (Warner Baxter) a pretty circus performer (Marjorie Weaver) is most kind, and nobody doubts who is to get the million. Result: a comic-opera Riviera, almost but not quite a lively, amusing farce...
Died. John Van Alstyn Weaver, 44, literary journeyman and husband of Actress Peggy Wood; of tuberculosis; in Colorado Springs. In 1921, having taken exception to an observation in H. L. Mencken's American Language that nothing serious could be written in slang, he published a book of poems (In American), at Mencken's suggestion, to disprove...