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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sued. Ben Hecht, novelist (Erik Dorn, Gargoyles, Count Bruga) and playwright (coauthor The Front Page); by Chicago Daily News Co. Charge: breach of contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...laboratory resources. During 1929-30 there will be made 30 full-length and 52 short Radio pictures, all of which will talk, many of which will also sing. In these pictures will appear Richard Dix, Rudy Vallee, Rod La Rocque, Owen Moore, Bebe Daniels, Betty Compson. Writers will include Ben Hecht, Charles McArthur, Eugene Walter, Viña Delmar. Thus among great film companies must be ranked Radio Corp., and to the list of cinema tycoons must be added the name of short, stocky David Sarnoff, Radio Corp.'s Vice President and General Manager. Inasmuch as Radio Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Radio into Talkies | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...pages rehearse the Civil War without telling a connected story, but through 90 separate "stories." Authoress Scott's purpose: to make an impressionistic panorama of people then and how they felt. Her method recalls John Brown's Body, the Civil War in blank verse by Stephen Vincent Benét. Like Poet Benét, Authoress Scott did her writing in foreign countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ninety Fragments | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...MacDonald birthplace was a-but-and-a-ben, a two-room structure with a thatched roof, one door.-ED. Judge Lynch Sirs: I have just read Negro White's "Judge Lynch." What a dirty lot of lies. I have read a number of articles by both white and black, but never has my blood boiled before. I think if anyone ever needed a coat of tar and feathers its the author of "Judge Lynch." Yes, we do lynch the Negro in the South. Some day the North will be sorry they didn't try the same cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...want Life Subscriptions?'' I do, one for me 49 years old, one for my sister Mrs. Ben R. Meyer who is 50 years old, and one for my son-in-law who is 26 years old, all subscribers. My son-in-law's name is Herman F. Hahn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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