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At the moment. Robert Taylor is busy tuning-up for “A Yank at Oxford.” He is learning to row a boat, for he is to stroke Oxford to victory j (in the film) in the annual tussle with i Cainbridge on the Thames. Robert’s coach is Mr “Bossy” Phelps, the King’s i Bargeman, and one of Britain's leading authorities on sculling. Robert is also learning the art of ice skating (on a specially hired rink) as well as the technique of track athletics. ! Wallace Beery is the latest Holly- j woodite to be annoyed with threats of kidnapping. A letter delivered to his! home demanded a prompt payment of £2ooo on threat of harm Ho Carol Ann,! his four-year-old adopted daughter. : Carol Ann and Mrs Beery arc staying j at the Beery residence while Wallace is j away on location. Police regard the. threat as the work of another crank, A number of mysterious telephone calls have been received in the past few days at the Beery home.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 20 November 1937, Page 7
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169PERTINENT PARS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 20 November 1937, Page 7
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