People, Jan. 8, 1934

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

A Hollywood film sequence in which he was required to puff a pipe made non-smoker Will Rogers so ill that production had to stop until some cubebs (medicinal cigarets used for asthma) could be procured.

A minor role in Dark Victory, a new play by George Brewster Jr., was ably played at a New Haven tryout by Tallant Tubbs, 36, wealthy San Francisco ropemaker who in 1932 was defeated for the Senate in California by William Gibbs McAdoo. As a socialite playboy Actor Tubbs pops...

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