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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point that Virginia-born M. P. Lady Astor, ever ready to put in her tuppence worth, interrupted. She owns a deer park on the Isle of Jura, she said, which is all moss and peat and "fit for nothing but deer." Not even trout could be raised on it. Spunkily Lady Astor offered to build Mr. Kirkwood a cottage on her deer park on Jura and bet him he could not make a living off it. Machinist Kirkwood is no farmer, but he accepted-much too hastily, it turned out. The discussion was continued in the lobby...
...then there are the stars. Jack Pearl, forsaking der Baron Munchausen, appears as Rubbish, the foreign-born Hollywood director whose fame it seems is based on a movie he once made about a boy and a girl and a dike. Rubbish, we discover in the first scene, is filming the Battle of Lexington and, always a stickler for accuracy, the scene is filmed in Lexington, Mass. There live such citizens as Buddy Ebsen--you guessed it, he's the Yokel Boy--Lois January, Judy Canova and other individuals who by the middle of the first act have all wandered...
Last week the Wurlitzers, piano makers for 30 years, announced a 129% sales increase over the first five months of 1938, an all time record since neat German-born Rudolph Wurlitzer founded the company in 1856. Meanwhile, piano makers as a whole&#hardest-hit U. S. music industrialists during Depression-recorded a 30.5% sales increase over last year...
Three years ago, after a long career of dodging immigration officials and rubber-checking rich and high-born speak-easy acquaintances, Mike's luck ran out. After a short spell in jail, he skipped Manhattan...
...years Hollywood has been waiting, no novelist has yet written a good book about it. Few serious novelists have even tried. A harder try than most is The Day of the Locust, by a 35-year-old Manhattan-born novelist who became a screen writer three years ago, after writing a talented satire called Miss Lonelyhearts...