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...Dictators; David Selznick, Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; Alexander Korda, five Technicolors, including two with his East Indian Mickey Rooney, Sabu; Walter Wanger, Vincent Sheean's Personal History; Hal Roach, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men; Douglas Fairbanks, a biography of Adventuress Lola Montez called The Californian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Menu | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Thus reasoned a lanky, hardheaded Californian whose Irish blood fears no fight but whose humanist mind hates folly. Lawyer John Francis ("Jack") Neylan, onetime political and financial reporter, was until 1937 lord high chancellor of the Hearst empire. Before that (1911-17) he was chairman of the State finance body which put California on a budget. For eleven years he has been a regent of the University of California. He is a director of great National City Bank (Manhattan). Nowadays he commutes to San Francisco from his ranch in the mountains to the south. Last fortnight Jack Neylan appeared before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Neylam Plan | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...When the red-headed Californian has his serve working," Perry stated, "nobody can stop him. There is not a player in the game who can touch his cannon ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fred Perry Asserts College Is Place To Discover Fundamentals of Tennis | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

...Last week in Munich the Fuhrer decided that he would like The Merry Widow a little merrier. A telegram was sent to Cannes where lissome, long-limbed Marion Daniels was doing an acrobatic tap dance turn at the Casino. A special plane followed, rushed the blonde 19-year-old Californian to Munich's Gärtnerplatz Theatre where she gave a few new twists and taps to The Merry Widow's, Viennese waltzes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fuhrer and Flexes | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Western Wonderland | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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