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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been sending out their Bowery mission programs. Result was that an advertising scout heard Mrs. Ulrey sing The Penitent's Plea and Let the Lower Lights Be Burning, was vastly impressed with the quality of her voice. He saw to it that she was offered a steady radio contract at $500 per week, a chance to sing with Rudy Vallee in behalf of Fleischmann's Yeast. Volunteer Ulrey came near yielding to temptation. Last week, after due meditation, she refused all commercial offers, piously announced "My voice belongs...
...doubtless already been obliged to consider old stories which gained fresh currency upon the death nearly five years ago of Father Damien's zealous, self-sacrificing successor, Brother Joseph Dutton (TIME, April 6, 1931). Brother Joseph died at 87, untouched by leprosy. Why, some wondered, did Father Damien contract it? Was he unclean? Soon after Father Damien died a Honolulu Presbyterian missionary named C. M. Hyde wrote a colleague that, among other things, the leper priest "was not a pure man in his relations with women." This statement, published in Australia, evoked from Presbyterian Robert Louis Stevenson a bitter...
This latest Douglas advance has largely gathered way in the past four months. On Oct. 15, Douglas and its subsidiary, Northrop Co., had $4,500,000 in orders. Today they have $15,000,000. About $8,000,000 of this came in Army contracts awarded month ago. Some $3,000,000 more came last week from the Navy in a contract for 114 torpedo bomber planes. The remnant is made up of orders for the DC2 and the new DC-3, better known as the DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport...
Almost since tennis started, there have been professional teachers. Yet professional tennis, as a game, did not really get under way until 1926, when Charle's C. ("Cash & Carry") Pyle induced famed Suzanne Lenglen to sign a contract for exhibition matches. Last week, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, professional tennis began its tenth season. A crowd of 15,000 watched leggy Ellsworth Vines beat handsome, lethargic Lester Stoefen 6-2, 6-2. William Tatem Tilden II, now in his sixth season as a professional and no longer a star attraction, gave expression to his egotistic dissatisfaction with...
Died. John ("Handsome Jack") Gilbert, ne Pringle, 38, onetime "great lover" of silent cinema: of a heart attack; in Hollywood. He went to Hollywood in 1915, rose through the ranks of film extras, finally starred in The Big Parade, won a $500,000 contract with MGM. Though he preferred characters that "live, breathe and sweat," fandom worshipped him as Garbo's ardent lover in Flesh and the Devil, Love. A squeaky voice doomed his talkie career, and he faded from public view. At the modest Hollywood funeral were two of his four divorced wives...