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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delmars drove from Hollywood to Agua Caliente, lost so much gambling at the Casino that they had to borrow money for gas to drive home. When they came to file their joint income tax return for 1933, Eugene remembered to deduct the $1,200 he had lost at chemin de fer, Vina the $300 she lost at roulette. Under the Revenue Act of 1934 this posed the problem as to whether the Delmars had undertaken their gambling for recreation or profit. Called before the Board of Tax Appeals, chunky Eugene insisted he had gambled for profit, to prove his experience...
Tomorrow Coach Mitchell's charges will journey to Ithaca to play a holiday engagement with the Cornell nine. Either Curtiss or Healey will get the nod, since big Ed Ingalls is still hors de combat. The Ithacans pulled an early season league upset yesterday, when their newly uncovered pitcher, Worthy Dodd, defeated Yale 6-3 with only for hits...
...worst shape of all, however, was the respectable 54-year-old Catholic Nationalist Echo de Paris. Last week it was finally rescued by and merged into veteran Leon Bailby's struggling Rightist Le Jour. Le Jour, now Le Jour-L'Echo de Paris, lost, however, one of Echo's biggest assets: Anglophile André Géraud, better known as Pertinax, one of the best connected of the many well-connected political writers in France. His political dispatches which sparkle like champagne at a diplomat's table have long appeared in the London Telegraph...
Perambulator. Paul Klee has not been without honor in Europe or the U. S, At the world-famed Bauhaus directed by Architect Walter Gropius at Weimar, later Dessau, Germany, Klee was for nine years one of three artist-instructors in painting.*Like Picasso and de Chirico, he was tapped by the surrealists in the '20's but stayed outside the club. In 1930 Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art gave him the first big U. S. exhibition. When Germany became inclement to modern art five years ago, stern-faced, gentle Fantasist Klee settled near his birthplace...
...roof fell. When dawn broke, a cloud of smoke a mile in diameter covered a heap of debris, the charred skeletons of 22 private planes valued at $508,000. Among them were an Autogiro, taxiplane and big machines belonging to Gar Wood, James Mattern, Alexander P. de Seversky...