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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rise from head of a timber crew in the north woods to the partnership he has set his heart on, Barney Glasgow has to do more than spur his gang on to a record cutting. He has to marry the boss's unappealing daughter. For this high hurdle in ambition's path he gets up courage by a brief affair with a dance-hall hostess (Frances Farmer), not the least of whose charms is a convenient knack of converting beer trays into lethal missiles in a barroom brawl. When Glasgow goes off to marry his heiress, the eccentric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...after she had spent more than nine hours kissing three young actors to test their ability to play the role of her fiancé in the film. Winner was tall, tennis-playing Francis Xavier Shields. In the course of the picture, he and Actress Leeds (Barney's daughter) kiss neither each other nor anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Born. To Marshall Field III, 43, twice-divorced Chicago department store scion; and his third wife, Mrs. Ruth Pruyn Phipps Field: a daughter, their first child (his fourth, her third); in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Born. To Emmett ("Red") Ormsby, 41, American League baseball umpire; and Mrs. Helen Ormsby, 39: their eighth daughter (twelfth child); in Chicago. Weight: 111b...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Engaged. Hon. Margaret Gwendolen Mary Drummond, 31, eldest daughter of British Ambassador to Italy Sir Eric Drummond; and John Walker III, 29, of Pittsburgh, now at Rome's American Academy; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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