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...listed the Tijuana riffraff and called their settlement Agua Caliente ("Hot Water"). Repeal killed drab Tijuana, merely boomed the horse & dog racing, the Casino gambling, swimming, drinking at Hot Water. Natives of Hollywood, only an hour and a half away by plane, got in the habit of weekending there. Cineman Joseph Schenck bought into the Hotel, was delighted this year when Warners used his place for exterior shots in In Caliente (TIME, June 3). Into this playtime idyl last week crashed Mexico's ascetic President Lázaro Cárdenas...
...Ward O'Malley and Richard Harding Davis schools. In their place, modernism has given the talking cinema to journalism. The March of Time is contemporary history on the screen, welcomed by the industry as a new pattern for pointing up new ideas in the treatment of news, the cineman's cinema...
When, after 25 years, betting at race tracks was legalized in California last year, sportsmen all over the State were in a dither to start a track. Cineman Hal Roach (Our Gang Comedies), who plays better polo than most of his confreres, wanted one near Los Angeles. Dr. Charles H. Strub, onetime dentist who made his fortune with a chain of painless extraction parlors and later owned the San Francisco baseball club, wanted one at San Francisco. But onetime Newsboy William P. Kyne got ahead of him with Bay Meadows at San Mateo, which last week ended its successful first...
...insurance to the amount which could be purchased on the ordinary life plan by 20% of the man's income." Lives known to be insured for $1,000,000 or more include those of Motorman Walter P. Chrysler, Scripps-Howard's Roy Wilson Howard, Harvey Samuel Firestone, Cineman Will Rogers. Some jumbos deceased since 1923: Julius Rosenwald, William Wrigley Jr., John Thompson Dorrance...
...commission house in Paris and London. His friends and former clients ranged from Cineman Winfield Sheehan and Steelman Charles Michael Schwab to Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe). Since 1931 when the House of Pynchon fell (borne down largely by the collapse of General Theatres Equipment securities), Banker Pynchon has lost his mansion at Greenwich. Conn., his yachts, his millions. Shrunken security values have reduced the settlement which Pynchon creditors expect to run about 25? on the dollar, denying him the chance of saving any stake with which to recoup his fortune. Wall Street, feeling that Mr. Pynchon had failed with...