| Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated features service na N FEW EW YORK george ade is the 1 first and the last of the modern fabulists he might still do something factual but still f fabulous like iron iran hat instead most things today about of mortar board theresa crowns beauty 0 x bonney them the once upon a time was in 1921 when the pretty american girl from syracuse Syra cise turned in her thesis for her doctorate of letters at the sorbonne in paris her subject was the moral ideas in the theater of alexander dumas the younger the cheers were re sounding and international miss bonney previously had romped through the university of california and had taken her masters degree at harvard european bureaus of american newspapers rushed girl reporters to paris to her beauty and her intelligence she did not disappoint them all the garlands of the groves of academe were hers to say nothing of her flair for clothes the least the girls could figure for her was the presidency of an american college today is today and in the years in between adolf hitler has brought about drastic revision of moral ideas in france and elsewhere and in these years miss bliss bonney has had a ringside seat at the apocalypse just now the vichy government awards her the croix de guerre for bravery and devotion in evacuating refugees during the german invasion of last year she needed no identification here as she had already gained fame not as an intellectual but as a l eapher whose of chaos are official records in the library of congress and in the french ar chives last december she rei re i a grant from the Ca carnegie camelie megie foundation to return to france ands and continue her pictorial record of the war the hairpin hair pin turn in her career came just at the time women were discarding hair pins in paris she sold a story to an american newspaper they cabled for a picture she had bad trouble in getting it and dec decided aided to put an end to such difficult difficulties ties with her sister louiseann louise Loui seand and her mother in america as partners she organized bonney co 90 operating the international picture bureau lacking an important picture she bought a camera and started shooting her pictures were even a bi bigger ager success than her thesis baron mannerheimo Man Alan let her get into the thick of the fighting in finland and awarded her the white rose of finland witty dark haired and divac vivacious lous she made friends and frequently was a click or two ahead of her rivals in some new and unheralded belch out aut of hell she brought back to the library of congress pictures of the blitzkrieg lous T OUIS B mayer motion pic ture executive the highest paid american with his salary of in 1940 came a longer way up than L B mayer came others of the up T all AH the way n SEC from listing the from sea bottom bottom of the sea in fact at the age of 14 he wore a diving suit salvaging iron from sunken ships at new brunswick his family had brought him at the age of three from minsk russia where like george M cohan he had been born on the fourth of july in 1885 he sold his iron in boston saved and bought a tumble down theater at haverhill Haver hiU mass in the early days of the custard pie dynasty of the movies in 1911 1914 lie he got the new england rights tor for the birth of a nation that routed him to houswood HoUy wood the presidency of metro goldwyn mayer and a long fast runaround run around on the grand circuit of movie high hieb finance I 1 |
