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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Lee De Forest, 57, electrical inventor (pioneer in radio, sound cinema, television), uncle of Cinemactress Bebe Virginia Daniels; and Marie Mosquini, 41, oldtime comic-film actress, friend of Miss Daniels; secretly, two weeks ago, at Tia Juana, Mexico, a few days before the formalization of his divorce from the second Mrs. De Forest, Singer Mary Mayo of Manhattan...
...write entertainingly, uproariously, like several kinds of fool, several kinds of knave, but in this book he has not written a word. He Done Her Wrong is a "novel" in pictures, a takeoff on anything you like to mention: melodrama, cinema, picture-novels, the U. S., Virtue, Vice, comic strips...
...Author. Artist-Author Milt Gross is famed for his monologs in the Bronx dialect, Nize Baby, Conversations in a Dumb Waiter, which first appeared in the Manhattan World. Since then his syndicated Sunday comic strip, Count Screwloose of Toulouse, has made him a nationally-advertised product. Short, dark, blue-eyed, curly-headed, he is lively, kindly, entertaining. He is married, has three children. Oct. 1 he left the World, became a Hearstman. Other books: Nize Baby, Hiawatta, Famous Fimmales from History...
Bigger than North America's 48 United States, the 20 Estados Unidos do Brasil are too colossal for comic-opera upsets, just right for majestic civil war. Each state has its own army. Each president [governor] of a state is a more or less swashbuckling stickler for "states' rights." In Rio de Janeiro, scene of no revolt last week, the Brazilian Congress met and quietly voted $12,000,000 to put down simultaneous revolutions in the three states of Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Geraes and Parahyba. With 120 ballots favoring and eight opposed, the Congress declared "state...
Genial about his resemblance to "Andy Gump" is famed Governor Eugene Robert Black of Atlanta's Federal Reserve Bank (TIME, Dec. 9). Last week he suddenly began to act like comic strip Andy's fabulously rich "Uncle Bim" who airily bandies millions of dollars in "real money." Governor Black had been called on to stop runs against two prominent Havana banks. Gumpfully he ordered $25,000,000 in cash loaded into several airplanes, flew in one of them to Havana where bank running stopped abruptly...