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...theatrical celebrity falls into two divisions. By 1925 she had acquired the financial problems which customarily overtake actors who are too fond of their friends to save their money. When she made up her mind to start a hotel in Paris, her closest friend, a Manhattan astrologer named Nella Webb, persuaded her to wait, predicted that she would enjoy "seven fat years" beginning Jan. 17, 1927. On Jan. 17, Director Allan Dwan telephoned Marie Dressier, offered her a role in a picture he was about to make in Florida. Reluctantly-because she suspected that the producers who remembered her would...
...lost prestige by sponsoring the Administration's beer bill on the floor. By amending the Volstead Act the measure authorized beer of 3.2% alcoholic content by weight, imposed a $5 per barrel tax, required brewers to take out a $1,000 Federal license. Re-enacted was the old Webb-Kenyon law to protect Dry States from Wet Shipments...
...Ontario, St., Albany, N. Y.; Indiana, W. R. Allen '15, C/o L. S. Ayres Company, Indianapolis, Ind.; Michigan, John D. Rice, L '27, 2288 First National Bank Bldg., Detroit, Mich.; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Eldred M. Keays '07, 110 East Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee.; Minnesota, Reuel D. Harmon '26, C/o Webb Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn.; Philadelphia, Morris Duane '23, 1617 Land Title Bldg., Philadelphia; Rochester, N. Y., Hiram W. Sibley, 2nd, 404 East Avenue, Rochester N. Y.; Western Pennsylvania, Wells Fay '26, 1312 Park Building, Pittsburgh...
...Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker Jr., William Gilliland ("Bill Pickle"), onetime bootlegger to Penn State, Eton's Loudon Hamilton, Oxford's Canon Grensted. Author Russell naturally fails to mention such onetime Buchmanites as Princeton's Wilhelmus Bryan, Salem's Cornelius Trowbridge and Oxford's Murray Webb Peploe...
...attractive female in the cast. Funnyman Lahr's noisy gullet has seldom been put to wider use.. He is successively a slightly bewildered master of a trained dog act ("to train dogs takes a lot of time, patience-and dogs"); an imitator of mammy-singers and Clifton Webb; a manufacturer of bath-tub gin; the victim of a barber's nervous-handed wife; a man undergoing the third-degree and sticking to his "lullaby...