People, Apr. 4, 1938

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

In Chicago, oldtime Actress Edna Wallace Hopper appeared in Federal District Court to prosecute a suit for $230,000 in back salary and damages against various cosmetic manufacturers whose products she has publicized. When Judge Patrick Stone insisted that she give her age, Miss Hopper—looking except at close range not a day over 35—wrote a figure on a piece of paper, handed it to him. The judge's eyebrows shot toward the ceiling. The figure (if it agreed with the date of her birth in Who's...

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