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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sidney Smith, 58, comic strip artist ("The Gumps'') ; instantly, when his automobile collided with another and crashed against a telegraph pole (his head was almost torn off) ; near Harvard, Ill. He had just signed a five-year renewal contract for "The Gumps" at $150,000 a year...
...company took over all assets and contracts of David 0. Selznick Productions, announced it had no stock to sell the public. It will produce, on United Artists' lot where Pioneer Pictures will also function, some half dozen films a year at an average of $500,000 each. First on the list is Little Lord Fauntleroy, with Freddie Bartholomew,* starting Nov. 15, to be followed by an effort in Technicolor. Producer Selznick plans to bring Author Somerset Maugham to Hollywood. Directors George Cukor and John Cromwell, Actor Ronald Colman are now under contract...
...Philadelphia declared: "Up to the present time between 10,000 and 12,000 children have been immunized with my vaccine [virus weakened with a castor oil derivative]. No case receiving the full three doses has developed poliomyelitis. However, eight patients who had only one or two doses did contract the disease, indicating what I have long believed, that one or two vaccinations are insufficient...
...every contract relating to the Album has been signed. Every member of 1936 has received his life-blank and a request for his picture. In addition, weekly meetings are held on Wednesdays to discuss the progress of the work...
...with his father, Sacha ran away. He appeared in a comedy in the provinces, lost his mustachios, forgot his lines, and in a desperate attempt to rewin his audience leaned too far out the window of the set, bumped his head, fell flat on the floor. Next day his contract was canceled. Conscious of a vast relief, he sat down that same day, wrote the first act of Nona, his first success, in two hours...