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Picturing a bowdlerized version of lusty old San Francisco in the 1900s, Miss Faye & Co. tour Pacific Street's colorful saloons, stage a novel roller-skating dance, hop to Europe for a magnificent shot of a Dutch tulip field, and by way of plot attempt to prove that never the Barbary Coast (John Payne) and Nob Hill (Lynn Bari) shall meet. Technicolor does justice to Miss Bari's talents...
Died. Dr. Attilio Henry Giannini, 68, financier, pioneer backer of the cinema; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A physician, he began banking in 1908. His brother Amadeo founded the Bank of America; Attilio founded the East River National Bank in Manhattan, in the 1900s made loans to the nickelodeons, later gambled a fortune on The Kid, and-much later-backed Snow White...
Died. Joseph Francis Anthony Hagan ("Philadelphia Jack O'Brien"), 64, light-heavyweight champion of the early 1900s; after a prostate operation; in Manhattan. He lost his ring fortune speculating in real estate, turned to bodybuilding, ran famed gyms in Philadelphia and Manhattan. Unknown in the U.S., he went to the British Isles in 1900, knocked out the British heavyweight and middleweight champs, came home in 1902 with a mighty reputation, a small fortune, 18 trunks, 72 sets of red-and-blue silk underwear, a top hat, frock coat, and a rococo vocabulary. He won the light-heavyweight championship from...
Author Conrad Richter (The Trees') has already published one novel about the Southwest (The Sea of Grass). The setting of his brief new novel is Arizona in the early 1900s...
...reminiscences; in Montreal. Amiable, gregarious, easygoing, prolix, he had been drifting pleasantly around the globe writing casual thrice-weekly pieces for the Sun for more than 15 years, scattering harmless anecdotes he had been accumulating ever since he began making friends as a Munsey magazine editor in the early 1900s...