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F its h<jad cold on Labor Day while vis iting Del Monte. It was there nine lathy yttars ago he. spent-his'honeymoon Hi V- with Miss Shearer. t lit ion lie returned to Hollywood, and lictod plunged into his work as head of the-the-;M-G-M production_depnrtmenl, |hi?|h- but Wednesday was forced to go' to bed when a severe cold devel oped. His illness was diagnosed as pneumonia Sunday. PUBLICITY SHUNNED IL-J | When death came, his wife, his tpW I parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Thal- berg; his mother-in-law, Mrs. Edith i.T (tort lit It'S j Shearer, and his sister, Mrs. Thnlberg Weingarten, were bedside. The name of Thalberg, one Sylvia at his of the Wtrli'h l ,r,ost ^ri"iant >n Hollywood, did not fc- * ! appear on the screen. Fr,r! a , j[e jjave scrpon credit tn others K , blit skipped the usual "Produced pn j*ogt-d , jiy Be "Sercen credit is valuable only d.*11 When it's given you," he once said. b'p ! "If you're in position to give your self credit you don't need it." j In other ways this sensitive, shy, "film genius" differed from the well-known caricatures of Holly- j wood executives. ' Noted for calm, unruffled dlspo- ' sltion. courtesy and ability to make important derisions quickly, Thal- berg never raised his voice. He j sought ideas from others as freely as he gave them, and-- 1 "He was such a nice little Ruy,-"- ! snid more than one associate as J fjan ; news of his death spread. Iindcr INVALUABLE TO STUDIOS ' t Io 1 ! of stature and frail in health IJ! , . .' since boyhood, Thalberg yet worked as if driven by inner forces he j I'/'1" couldnot control. Before his break ing cs . r|OWI1 ((rrc^ years ago, when his . i wJfe. Norma Shearer, left the .`part- j S(.| Ccn jn order to be with him a insi iii ; yp;,r abroad, it was not unusual to only : find him at his dpsk 35 to 20 hours |jjbw('r i a . day. Later, even though Mrs. Thalberg worried and persisted in attempts to persuade him to work less, he often could be found there at midnight and beyond. When Carl Lacmmie brought him west as his private secretary, Thal- berg was 10. The Universal lot was dumbfounded when Lacmmlc, dc- parting for Europe, announced this "boy wonder" would be general, pin linger of the studio. The lot gave j VEEK $5.00 2.75 Thalberg possibly a week. j I But the company's pictures began ] improving right away, says Tod j 'Browning, a director with him then, j 11 l.sn I "It was his spirit that raised the | '8 morale then more than what he j knew. He wanted to see and know why, about everything. Then after ! a year he began correcting things." i J CO. HITS OF -SHEIK FILMS' i With fortunes at stake on every film.he produced--his own as we)'* as Metco-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, for he was a heavy stockholder a; FOB BEAUTY AND PROtFtriON \J P/ PAI\V Sh e r w in - Wil l ia ms p a in t s S h e r w i n ^ W i il i a m s FLAT-TONE colors ore loo Ibyijly to resist. And the beautiful pastel shodei form backgrounds, ilhet make room furnishings more beoutiful. Here's a flot will 'finish that's .really practidyal--it washes clean with soop ond winter. 16 lovely!: colors from which toHoose . , 87Quart - 1MionHniiL THIS WEEK ELASTIC : j Roof Cement Peooir'. holes In S>Mrs oirniad' flashings. Apply with (rowel. 5 lbs. Block n .1 s-w Brushes fiootiJ'uri' OhhiPi* ; p.rlsilr-]'. A iH-iihJTj'f t.P (he luiinf joh. l|j s I/u n ;, V tilcst n i/utl iM j! fijultlir r, ' For ft.S loW 1IH ri Ijl ' Varnish Stain c. . fS-VV Flo-loc) is-, re va/w-s-( * customer; a Quick.byhg floss Eiume/ *..r A Plnl--4pc Va/U# Af) _^nt to o Customer /J/C e seldom visited the sets unless h< 1 was called by a director., Associates credited him WllhJ Bti canny ability to spot story defects and to remedy "sick films." . They | told today how "Trader Horn." an j expensive "flop," was saved after the first preview. Thalberg went directly from the theater to his-of fice and outlined, far into the nighl, a new plan for "cutting." The film SlHARDWARJE: CO. Eourteeritti anief Washington, Oakland ' Telegraph and Cttannlng--Berkeley--Shatluck and Addison PAINT HEADQUARTERS v S Js hO ....... , l- - C *> 1 .- * J v. % LIPS TH LOVE A SURPRIS Prominent, long, Activg* pressive in eonremtiowy . . in rrpose. Upper insHower projecting somewhst forwi the teeth. The lips of 5the vi eager type, ilwiyi ready sdYrnture more than half * The nj the wl from c