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Norma's Tears As Hollywood Honours Dead
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Hollywood, April 1.
TEARS mingled with the cheers of
thousands when Hollywood's greatest event-presentation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards for the highest screen achievements of the year-was, staged in the bowl-like banquet- hall of the Biltmore Hotel here last night.
The awards, of gold statuettes, were as follows, ull relating to the best performances of 1930; **** ACTRESS: Luiso Rainer in The Great Ziegfeld; ACTOR; Paul Muni in The Life of Louis Pasteur: DIRECTOR: Frank Capra, for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Gall Zondergaard in Anthony
SUPPA ACTOR: Walter Brennan in "Come and
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BEST ORIGINAL STORY: Sheridan Gloney and Pierre-
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A special award was made to Douglas Shearer-- brother of Norma-for the most Important sound-record- ing developments.
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22, 1937.
EXTENDING THE ABBEY—A temporary annex is being erected to famed Westminster Abbey, to provide for the host of peers and peeresses who will be present at the coronation of King George and Queen Elizabeth. This shows the construction workt.
Cheers resounded as the prize Sinister Ship No Longer
winners received their awards. Then there was a hush as Mr. Capra, president of the nendemy, announced tint in future the award to the producer would be known as the Irving Thaiberg Memorial," in tri- bute to one of Hollywood's greatest figures.
The tears trickled down the aun- tanned face of a slight, fair-hatred woman in deep black who sat mute in a corner. It was Norma Shearer, Thalberg's widow, making her first public appearance since he died last September,
Many had expected that Thalberg's
lust and greatest film, "Romeo and
would be acclaimed the best picture
BANANAS TO
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Paris, Apr. 5.
Jullet" in which Norma starred ONE YEARS FAST IN TRANSPORTING CONVICTS FROM FRANCE
OF THE MOST SINISTER SHIPS IN THE WORLD, EMPLOYED
of 1030. 34 was by a very narrow | TO DEVIL'S ISLE, IS TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF. margin of votes that "The Great! Having decided to abolish the transportation of convlets, the French Ziegfeld" won,
Government has ordered that the convict ship La Martinlero shall be din- posed of.
The scene in the great hall was a brilliant one. Diamonds shimmered;
Henceforth, she will be making voyages from France to the West ermines and sables were flung care-Indies to bring back cargoes of rum, bananas and sugar instead of carrying lessly over chair-backs. Three sides in that direction cargoes of criminals.
Among
of the hall were packed with people. The ship has carried more than 40,000 convicts.
them were some of the most desperate malefactors known to the French police and some notable victims of ghastly miscarriages of justice, including Dreyfus.
As soon as she had received her statuetic Luiso Rainer slipped quietly to the table where Norma Shearer sat. They embraced and whispered,
Nobody heard what they said, but the gesture was unmistakeable, and it summed up the unspotten sentl- ments of unsentimental Hollywood. Norma had so nearly won....
What the awards will do for the people who gained them in not easy to foretell. When Claudette Colbert gained her award two years ago she was commanding £15,000 a picture, To-day she gets £30,000 and £40,- 000.
On the walls of the cells or enges in which the transported convicts were kept during the passage are still to be seen pathetic messages scrawled in the handwriting of the prisoners.
France Orders
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Ocean Plane
Paris, Apr. 1. To-Vienna-born-Luise Rainer,-the-Anxious not to be outstripped ttle statuette puts the hall-mark on in the race for a share in the a sudden and complete success. Her popularity is due to European charm transatlantic air traffic of the and vivacity-two qualities which no future, the French Ministry has United States artist can emulate.
ATHENS UNIVERSITY
CENTENARY PROGRAMME OF APRIL CELEBRATIONS
Athens, Apr. 1. The festivities in connection with the centenary of Athens University will inst from the evening of April 17 to April 24.
ordered a new giant transport plane as a prototype, and con- struction on it will begin short- {ly.
The new machine, provisionally known as the CAMS-161, will be a single wing seaplane, equipped with six Hospano-Suiza motors with a total of 4,800 horsepower. It will be 40 metres long and will weigh 40
took
That of Dreyfus reads: "I am the victim of a plot. Time will prove my innocence. I will never despair."
Yet another message is that of Ed- dle Guerin, who escaped to England and is still living in London. He wrote: "I will escope sooner later," and he made good the boast after thrilling adventures,
or
The Government received from an English frm the offer of a large sum for the ship in order that it might be exhibited at different ports, but it. was deckled that this would not be la the public interest.
Twice there were mutinies aboard;
broke
La Martinlere; the convicts loose and tried to overpower the crew and guards. On each occasion the mutiny was repressed sternly, and many prisoners were killed.
The last revolt of this kind was organised by an English convict named Long, whose innocence of the murder of a woman was affer- wards established.
Long died only a day before his Innocence was established, and with- in an hour or so of the receipt of the telegram ordering his release,
Plans call for the CAMS-101 carrying a crew of six and twenty passengers, for whom there will be accommodations. steeper
It is
the Before building.
full-sized designed to carry between two and
the machine, CAMS company is ล Te three tons of merchandise. Cruising The programme Includes
at 8,000 kilo- constructing an 10 meter model, Deum in the Cathedral, speeches by radios is estimated the King, the Minister of Education, metres with a headwing of 80 kilo- equipped to carry a crew of three, and the Rector, athletic contests be- metres an hour, and the cruising and all the necessary experimenta- tween students in the Stadium, a speed is put at 300 kilometres an tion will be carried out on the torchlight procession, and the hour. Maximum speed will be 330 model, which itself is obviously no illumination of the Akropolis.
kilometres, and celling 6,500 metres. toy. Uited Press.
A wreath will be laid on the Ceno- taph of the Unknown Warrior; an allegorical representation will be given on the Akropolis, and a per- formance of the "Antigone" of So- phocles will be given by students Inf the Odeion af Herodes Atticus, where there will also be a concert.
Excursions will be made to the monastery of Daphni and Eleusis, Marathon and Sunlum, and there will be a reception by the King,
The Universities of Oxford, Cam- beldge, London, Sheffield, Leeds, St. Andrews, Dublin, Belfast, Toron- lo, Western Ontario, Jerusalem, and Malta, besides the British Academy,
their have already appointed presentatives.
re-
Simultaneously with the centen- ary, a concert will be given to com- memorate the fortieth anniversary of the death of the British Philhellene, Clement Harris, like Byron, an old for Harrovian, who fell fighting Greece at the battle of Pente Pigadia ("Five Wells") on April 23, 1807, during the Greco-Turkish war, and whose monument, erected by the Inte Empress Frederick, is in the English church here.
The Committee of the Diocesan School Old Boys, and the Old Girls' Association, have arranged a Suppor Dance to take place at the Peninsula Hotel, Rose Room, on Friday, April 30, for members and their friends, Tickets may be obtained from mem- bers of the Committer.
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