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...September 19 California will put into effect its "Jackie Coogan Law,'' by which the courts will set aside half the cinema earnings of minors in a trust fund protected from their parents. Approved last week by Superior Judge Emmett H. Wilson was the first contract written to conform with the act, between Universal Pictures and 16-year-old Deanna Durbin. Cinemactress Durbin's earnings in the next five years will total...
...Most miraculous miracle concerns Professor Emmett, a neurotic, misanthropic entomologist whose maladjusted marriage drives him to suicide. Reincarnated as a termite, he successfully resists the herd and fatal mating instincts of fellow ants, saves the U. S. from a terrific invasion of stone-eating termites...
...radio (which he could buy in quantities for $25 apiece) ; 2) broadcast to them a rousing Sunday morning sermon, a good choir program; 3) ask in return only such donations as they care to send him. From Indianapolis for the past five years, a smart businessman named E. (for Emmett) Howard Cadle has been doing exactly that. Last week, celebrating the fifth anniversary of his broadcasts over Cincinnati's big station WLW, he counted as his own 330 radio-equipped churches, each with an average 220 Sunday listeners, in the rural districts of Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia...
...cast sitting down with the script writers few days before, sometimes tussling all night with the job. The Circle's, original members were Ronald Colman, a ten-year holdout against radio work; Cinemactress Carole Lombard; Leading Man Gary Grant; Baritone Lawrence Tib-bett; Groucho and Chico Marx; Robert Emmett Dolan and his orchestra. Early guests were Pianist Jose Iturbi, with a swing item in his repertory and "okeydokey" in his vocabulary, and Noel Coward, who upstaged everybody, gave Carole stagefright...
...untried Freshmen will meet Lynn Y.M.C.A, at 7:30 o'clock. Sprinters Stearns, Turner, Jay, Price, Brehmer and Ball; distance men Rowe, Downing, Emmett, Phinisy, and Schoonmaker; back strokers Johnson, Harris, and Mathis; breastrokers Girton, Wood and eberle, and divers Nichols, Skarples, and Thurlow are the men most likely to ses service. George Girton is the man to watch.EX-CAPTAIN CHARLIE HUTTER Alumnl Here Tonight...