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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the strollers witnessed was the first big show of the three-year-old Club de Lasso. Founded by Serbian-born Artist Paul Coze Dabija, who is a student of Red Indian lore, the club meets weekly at the fashionable riding club Menage Olive. The members, dressed in authentic cowboy clothes ordered from Denver, Colo., learn bronc riding, Western music, plain & fancy roping. Only requirement for membership is sincere interest in Le Wild West, but since its quarters are limited, the club has a long waiting list. Members are all French except for Chief Oskomon. a bonafide Indian, and Pauline...
Rodolfo Guglielmi, born May 6, 1895, in the little Italian village of Castellaneta, died August 23, 1926, in New York, as Rudolph Valentino. Last and best Valentino picture-a sequel to the one which had made his reputation five years before -was The Son of the Sheik, which grossed $2,500,000 after his death. Last year, Producer Joe Schenck's Art Cinema Corporation, which made the picture, sold the negative, along with some 30 other old cinema scraps, to an alert entrepreneur named Emil Jensen. Wary Mr. Jensen began operations by trying out The Son of the Sheik...
Most remarkable fact abput this war was that Harry Gideonse went on teaching at the university, unmolested by his boss. Tall, lanky, Dutch-born Harry Gideonse is 37 (two years younger than President Hutchins) and well liked by his faculty colleagues. He strides about the campus with his big German shepherd dog, Bob, at his heels, sometimes takes the dog to class. While his controversy with President Hutchins brought him his chief fame, in eight years at Chicago he acquired a reputation as a crack economist, became the most popular speaker on the university's radio Round Table...
...Born Henry Jackson, he was known as a "sissy" among his St. Louis schoolmates because of his skinny legs and dainty hands -and the fact that he thought football too rough. He wanted to be a surgeon. One of the older boys in the neighborhood -one Harry Armstrong-taught him to box to protect himself against bullies. After graduating from high school, he hitchhiked to Los Angeles with his coach to try to earn some money to go to college. They soon found themselves in the Los Angeles bread lines. There a local fight promoter named Tom Cox picked them...
...Nazi, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, father of five, devoted the entire front page of an elaborate extra edition to the occasion, peppered it with such headlines as Goring as a Father of a Family-A Day With Uncle Hermann. Because Field Marshal Goring's first-born is to be named Edda-same as Benito Mussolini's favorite daughter, the wife of Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano-and because the Cianos are great friends of the Gorings, wags cracked that the child had been born to the Berlin-Rome axis...