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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, Producer David Oliver Selznick finally chose an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in his forthcoming $2,000,000 production of Gone With the Wind. She was Vivien Leigh (pronounced Lee), 25, 103-lb., green-eyed, brown-haired, India-born daughter of an English stock broker, who got part of her training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, made a hit on the London stage in The Mask of Virtue, played subsequent cinema roles in Fire Over England, Storm in a Teacup and A Yank at Oxford...
...Cutten, born the son of a sea captain in Nova Scotia, is a onetime Baptist minister and Prohibitionist. For fun, he collects antique spoons. When he arrived at Colgate to become its president in 1922, he said : "The word democracy has become a fetish in America. . . . The rule (in government) must be by the aristocracy...
...Rios, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S., no friend to clericalism in Spain, invited a number of U. S. Catholics to visit Loyalist Spain, see for themselves that there is today no religious persecution. Ambassador de los Rios received a prompt reply from one of the invitees, blunt, Irish-born Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore. Calling the Ambassador a "common, ordinary liar," the Archbishop said...
Most swing enthusiasts are bored by highbrow music; most concertgoers are irritated by swing. But the world's No. 1 highbrow fiddler, Joseph Szigeti,* and the world's No. 1 swing clarinetist, Benny Goodman, have long admired each other. When Hungarian-born Szigeti heard Goodman last year, he was so impressed that he wrote home to his friend, Composer Bela Bartók, asking him to compose something that he and Goodman could play together. Absent-minded Bartók didn't even bother to answer, but surprised Szigeti a few months later by sending...
Marriage Revealed. Vera Zorina (real name: Eva Brigitta Hartwig), 22, Norwegian-born ballet dancer (I Married An Angel, Goldwyn Follies) ; and George Balanchine (real name: Georgei Melitonovitch Balanchivadze), 35, crack Russian choreographer, balletmaster of the American Ballet; Christmas Eve, on Staten Island...