Actors Turn to Writing A New Trend in Hollywood
Hollywood writers note a wave of actor authors, led by Elissa Landi with a promising English trilogy, Mae West drafting a new novel Love For Sale, George M. Cohan and Douglas Fairbanks Jr also publishing. Other actors like James Gleason, Eddie Cantor, Groucho Marx, Norman Foster, Billie Dove, Jelle Taylor, Lois Moran, and Tom Brown contribute plays, short stories, poems, or novels while balancing screens and stages.
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Dan Thomas
Hollywood
Elissa Landi
Elissa
England
George M. Cohan
Broadway
Cohan
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Doug
Mae West
Miss West
James Gleason
Shannons
Lois Moran
New York
Eddie Cantor
Groucho Marx
Marx
Norman Foster
Sun Dodgers
Billie Dove
Jelle Taylor
Poe
Tom Brown
Tom Best
Culver
Negro Heir Claims Macon Barber Was Real Brother Loh
Rosetta Perdue, a Negro woman, seeks to prove in surrogate's court that wealthy Tarrytown realtor Carl C Loh was really Howell Cobb Carter, a Negro barber from Macon, who left Georgia in 1899 and masqueraded as a white German. Handwriting tests are planned to compare 1899 letters with Loh's.
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White Plains
N. Y
Rosetta Carter Perdue
Negress
Tarrytown
Carl C. Loh
Howell Cobb Carter
Macon
George A. Slater
Loh
Perdue
Hyde Park
Carter
Ivan Skura
Rosetta Perdue
Mary Carter
How to Improve Your Speaking Voice for Appeal
Advice for women on vocal quality and diction. Emphasizes softening the "wh" sounds by whistling position, keeping the tongue low and pressed to the lower teeth, and forming a triangle with the tongue and teeth. Argues a pleasant voice signals cultivated education and avoids irritating listeners.
Missing Pillow Fight Note Stays in City?
A hobo traveling from San Antonio to Houston slept with a suitcase as a pillow and awoke to theft. His covers remained but his suitcase and contents including half a set of false teeth, a suit, 40 handkerchiefs, and shaving items were gone.
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Houston
Tex
San Antonio
Knoxville Officer Secures Injunction Against Wife Beating
Rene, a strapping policeman, seeks an injunction to stop his wife from attacking him or incurring debts in his name. Ed Lee, described as bold, is the officer involved who obtained the order after she allegedly called him profane names and threw knives at him.
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Knoxville
Ed Lee
Kidnap Victim Back Home Unhurt But Will Not Talk
Jess Minkowski proprietor of a Kenosha night club was kidnapped Monday night and returned home unharmed. He refused to identify his abductors or say where he had been. A man thought to be an abductor, Ray Nolan, 32, a Chicago automobile salesman, was arrested in Glenn Ellyn after a late-night call demanded $25,000. Police traced the ransom call to Wheaton and alerted area operators to watch for another call. Nolan denied involvement as police closed in at the interurban station.
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Kenosha
Wis
Jess Minkowski
Minkowski
Chicago
Ray Nolan
Glenn Billyn
Mike Ruffalo
Jess
Joe
Buffalo
Wheaton
Ill
Cites
Glenn Ellyn
Anna Morris
Nolan
Brazilian Joan of Arc Leads Rebels-Turning Volunteers
In Uberaba Brazil a woman known as a cult leader and healer joined federal troops in a northern campaign against Sao Paulo rebels. She wore a volunteer soldier uniform and commanded several thousand followers including women and children, aiding in the capture of Igacava and driving the federal drive southward.
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Uberaba
Brazil
Joan of Arc
Sao Paulo
Goyaz
Spo
Oas
Getulio Vargas
Paulo
Igacava
Soybean By-Products and Uses Highlighted
The Orient reports that soybeans yield about 250 by products, while the United States manufactures roughly 50 distinct items from soybeans. This overview notes the extensive range of soybean derived products and their domestic production scope.
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The
Orient
United States
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