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Hollywood. Tia Juana, Agua Caliente, Malibu, Colon. What glorious pictures these words conjure up in the minds of the moviegoer and the newspaper reader. Can't you just picture the exciting days and nights spent in these colorful cities. And, by the way, if you're planning to go travelling, and wish to visit these lands of your dreams, don't fail, absolutely, to read Incredible Land by that picturesque writer, Basil Woon (Liveright, $2.50). As a guide book it is excellent, but it is no less a very readable volume for an evening at home on the magic carpet...
...romance, mechanical spectacle or pure pornography, Producer Zanuck likes to deal lightheartedly with episodic scenarios about lively, colorful plebeians-with James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, William Powell impersonating taxi-drivers, reporters, gamblers, shysters. When Zanuck left Warners, Producer Joe Schenck, who recently has been interested in horse racing at Agua Caliente, furnished Zanuck with cash to produce his pictures at United Artists' studio (like Samuel Goldwyn, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Sr.). Suspected of intending a campaign of "star-raiding,'' Producer Zanuck has so far managed to borrow or buy in the open market...
...face, snub-nosed and babyish, belies the age of 16 which he gave a year ago to get his apprentice's license. Riders who know him well suspect that he is really two years younger. Like his brother William, who died of injuries after a fall at Agua Caliente last year, Jack Westrope could ride as soon as he could walk. He went to Florida last winter as contract rider for a Texan named Oscar Foster. By the time Foster, who lives wherever he happens to be racing his string of horses, moved to Chicago for the Hawthorne meeting...
Actually, Elliott had had two chances to ask Miss Googins. He met her in Dallas last March while on his way West to manage a Los Angeles-Agua Caliente air line controlled by Mrs. Isabella Greenway, long-time friend of the Roosevelt family. She is a bobbed-haired, brunette Junior Leaguer of 23, whose late father was head of the Swift packing plant at Fort Worth. She had been invited to a dinner party given for Elliott. He drove her back to Fort Worth, went to see her once before proceeding to Nevada to establish residence for his divorce...
...Norman W. Church's four-year-old Gallant Sir: the $25,000 Agua Caliente Handicap, in 2:02.6, a shade better than Phar Lap's track record last year; outclassing a field in which he was favored at 1 to 5; at Agua Caliente, Mexico...