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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first ridiculed as "the whirling dervish of the air," the autogiro gradually improved during a long tour of Europe punctuated by frequent crashes, which proved the giro's safety because Pilot de la Cierva was never hurt. In 1928, when he flew the English Channel, he won recognition. From then on, England was autogiro headquarters. English capital financed the Cierva Autogiro Co. Inventor de la Cierva, Royalist son of King Alfonso's Minister of War, was glad to stay away from Spain after King Alfonso was dethroned. Except for an occasional spree with his four children, he devoted...
Autogiros have still to be adapted to transport flying, since they are relatively slow and can carry only small loads. One morning last week, when Juan de la Cierva wished to go to the Continent, he stepped aboard a twin-motored Douglas DC2 monoplane belonging to Royal Dutch Airlines at Croydon. Aboard with him went a crew of four and twelve other passengers, including Admiral Salomon Arvid Lindman, onetime Prime Minister of Sweden...
...Universal expects is currently as perplexing to Hollywood as whether she is its oldest child actress or its youngest adult star. Cinemactress Durbin, currently in New York on vacation, owns three pet turtles, a black dog named Tippy, collects paper matches for souvenirs. She takes singing lessons from Andres de Segurola, piano lessons from Frances Minnerick, schools with a tutor in the studio, is nicknamed "Candy," likes to swim and ride. When she goes back to Hollywood she will live in a new house overlooking the Universal lot, with a bedroom walled in glass brick...
...Metropolitan manager, Edward Johnson chose Die Walküre to open his season next week, the first time in 35 years a Wagnerian opera has been first-nighted at the Metropolitan. Artur Bodanzky will be the first-night conductor, but a new conductor has been engaged, Portuguese-born Maurice de Abravanel, and an old one re-engaged, Richard Hageman, who will be on hand to direct the U. S. premiere of his Capon-sacchi. Another U. S. premiere was to be Cimarosa's more-than-a-century-old Secret Marriage. Both operas are to be sung in English. Manager...
...named Nobel Hamiter (see cut). The lethargy of its bestial stooges made "Beauty & the Beast" less titillating than Billy Rose had expected, and it was soon replaced by a "Ziegfeld Milk Bath." Dr. Hamiter took his lions off to Chicago to become part of a vaudeville troupe called Circus de Paris. A 22-year-old chorus girl named Gladys Cote volunteered to replace Dancer Nevell. The act was renamed "Bride of the Lion...