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Abandoned by Spender
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May Get Italian Post
Due to the determination of Henry P. Fletcher to resign his Ambassador- ship to Italy, President Hoover sub- mitted the name of John W. Garrett, ahove, as successor. Garrett, u Balti- avre, Md., banker, wil formerly Minister to the Netherlands and the Argentine. Since bis name is reported acceptable to the Italian Government his appoinbuent scents very likely.
"Doing Very Nicely"
Pictures
Enterprising Film Star!
Alice Terry, Elst star, returning from France and showing she has acquired the French woman's liberty of smoking in public. She is reported to have joined a French motion picture producing enter- prise as partner. Her husband, Rex Ingram, American producer, is also in the company which plans French movies on the Riviera.
Angry About Her Flat Raid
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1929.
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Mrs. John T. Martin had her millionaire husband, author of
"Booful Baby" letters of generation ago, indicted for abandoning
daughter, Sheila, seven, because he can't afford te spare a dollar of
his million for his wife and child. Martin was arrested at his beauti-.
ful estate in Stamford, Conn. He is said to be one of Broadway's
greatest spenders.
Society Divorce Involves Peerage
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bert Duggans, in Dondon,
threatened involve two high ranking
members of the
British Peer- age. The hus-
hand, heir to
Curzon mil-
lions, will ac-
cuse his former
best friend
when
comes up.
case
Mrs. Al Jolson, above, known on the stage as Ruby Keeler, Is on the road Lo recovery following operation in New York, unless complications set in. The dancing star was stricken in her dressing-room at the theatre
and Dorothy Stone was summoned from California te All the vacated role.
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Besides being the oldest living
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Mrs. Jack Kearns, estranged wife of Jack Dempsey's former manager and one time Follies girl, was decidedly vehement when she appeared before a New York Justice, seeking warrants for Teddy Hayes and "Two Gun" Murphy, on a charge of making an illegal "It's a lie," she said to their entry into her New York apartment. claim they ESW
man skedaddle out the back door." She admits having entertained Charles Culkin, Jr., sheriff's son, just before the "raid, but claims her sister, Mrs. Charles Schneider, and husband, were there at the same time.
Edison Keeps His Birthplace
Officials of the State of Ohio were and still are anxious to obtain the little red brick-house. in which Thomas A. Edison, right, was born at Milan, Ohio. Edison refused to sell to the State which wanted to acquire. it for a public shrine.
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