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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrived on the Ile de France with a manager, a pianist, a violinist, three maids, 23 trunks, 50 pieces of hand luggage, a 12th Century Buddha and a $6,000-per-week contract. Awaiting her were a Sherry-Netherland penthouse, a show called Continental Varieties, a brand new night club on the 65th floor of the R. C. A. building, Rockefeller Center. Producers Arch Selwyn and Harold B. Franklin congratulated themselves when, a week before the Varieties opened, every $8.80 seat in the house had been sold. Rockefeller Center was proud of its Rainbow Room, with its high glass walls...
...club is designed to provide an effective outlet for the political effort and personal influence of students who are not ordinarily active in politics but who, through this club, can assist in assuring to their native Commonwealth the Constitutional guaranties of individual freedom, personal security, the right of free contract and broadminded executives, intent on true public service...
...before Depression. Douglas Fairbanks (whose Private Life of Don Juan had its London première last month), Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Gregory Ratoff, are a few of the Hollywood celebrities who are making pictures in England. Last week John Barrymore signed a contract with London Film Productions, Ltd. to act in an adaptation of a Shakespeare play, directed by Alexander Korda (The Private Life of Henry VIII). Most potent of British producing companies. which are currently paying 25% higher salaries than Hollywood, is Gaumont-British. Last week this concern announced its plans to invade the U. S. market by supplementing...
Month ago Reginald I. ("Rex") Brasher (pronounced Bray-sher) signed a contract with Connecticut in which that State agreed to build within two years a museum to house his collection of North American bird drawings-a collection which some experts rate as the best since John James Audubon (TIME, Sept. 12, 1932).* By last week almost all of "Rex" Brasher's 874 original pictures, valued by him at $500,000, had been moved to the State Capitol vaults at Hartford...
...gangling 5 ft., 10 in., she started vocal lessons, hoped only to cultivate poise. But singing obsessed her even when she started school-teaching. Her radio début was over Memphis Station WMC. For two years she sang free in Chicago. Then Columbia Broadcasting System gave her a contract which led to a better one with National Broadcasting Co. and a place with Phil Baker on the Armour hour. Last week's award resulted from a nation-wide balloting in which she won 23,432 votes out of 290,000. Besides her crown she received...