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...hour later it was gone, northward, but behind it came a tidal wave, to flood Osaka, Kobe and the carpet port of Sakai. It swept over a leper hospital and drowned 200, over an insane asylum and drowned 50. It tossed the 4,000-ton Batavia Maru onto a wharf, jammed the Ural Maru up a stone-curbed canal and drove the Zuiho Maru into the Customs House. As Osaka citizens fled past the Iron Works toward higher ground, the pursuing water tried to drown the red-hot blast furnaces. The explosion killed a score, injured...
...Immoral and indecent" were The Life of Vergie Winters, Side Streets, Dr. Monica, Road to Ruin, Little Man, What Now?, Born to Be Bad, Girls for Sale, Manhattan Melodrama, Wharf Angel, Merry Wives of Reno, Notorious but Nice, Finishing School, Sisters Under the Skin, Sadie McKee, Fog Over Frisco...
Died. Dorothy Dell Goff, 19, blonde cinemactress (Wharf Angel, Little Miss Marker); in an automobile accident; near Altadena, Calif. A series of beauty contests brought her titles of "Miss American Legion," "Miss New Orleans," "Miss America." Florenz Ziegfeld gave her a job in the Follies of 1931 after she became Galveston's "Miss Universe" in a $2.98 white bathing suit. In Hollywood she was being groomed for stardom...
...last appeal of his attorneys was turned down. At 6 one evening six Turkish guards took him from the House of Detention and drove him down to the waterfront in a taxi. Resigned, he went aboard the small steamer Adana and waved good-by to his lawyers on the wharf, reassuring them that they would be paid for their services. During the night the steamer crossed the Sea of Marmora to the Asiatic port of Panderma where, still guarded by six Turks, he entrained for Smyrna...
...begged them to cut down expenses, but they won't. From 1920 to 1930, I gave my father $461,000 and of that amount I got not more than $200 a month." Mary Astor promised in future to support her family "in comfort but not extravagance." Wharf Angel (Paramount). It is a cinema tradition that the medium for introducing a new star should be a picture in which she performs as a prostitute with more principles than profits. In Wharf Angel Toy (Dorothy Dell) is a San Francisco bad girl, rehabilitated by her pure love for Como (Preston Foster...