Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last July Funk & Wagnalls sold the once great Literary Digest to the Albert Shaws Sr. & Jr. (Review of Reviews). Last October the Shaws passed the Digest on to George F. Havell & associates. Mr. Havell and his friends, none of them wealthy, anticipated working capital from an unnamed publishing angel. While Recession interceded and the angel procrastinated, one of the Digest's few substantial sources of revenue was renting to advertisers (at $8 to $15 per thousand names) its mailing lists of 4,000,000 names of present and former subscribers. But that was only a stopgap...
Engaged. Katherine Gibbs ("Kay") Francis Gaston Meehan MacKenna, 33, cinemactress (White Angel, First Lady, Mary Stevens M.D.); to Raven Erik Barnekow, 41, minor German baron; in Hollywood...
...most involved accounts of the complications that can befall a simple family. In the ultimate trial, to which the whole picture leads up, we see a Harvard Freshman tensely watching his mother (Frieda Inescort), a beautiful barrister with whom he is hopelessly in love, defend his step-mother (Heather Angel) for the murder of their former husband, while the District Attorney (Walter Abel) does his best to outwit the attorney for the defense, with whom he, too, is hopelessly in love...
...acts in it. Abbott is noted for discovering merit in scripts rejected by other producers, is able by skilful play-doctoring, casting and directing to whip up a hit out of what looked like nothing.* Nevertheless, Abbott's whiphand some-times falters: his first two shows this season (Angel Island, Brown Sugar) were flops. But last week his third attempt looked as if it might last...
...when he hurriedly left Madrid a year ago, last week displayed mostly new pictures done in Cuba, including a starchy self-portrait (see cut). Hard for hard- shelled critics to resist were his cloudless canvases of Jark-skinned Cuban musicians and dancers, bright still-lifes, chic panels entitled Angel Musicians, Voluptuousness of the Rain. Artist de Caviedes left Spain because he had been painting murals in the Vatican just before the Revolution broke out and leaving the part of Spain he was in seemed the prudent thing to do. At the Milch Galleries, a young U. S. painter of romantic...