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First intimation of that momentous idea occurred April 8 when the President sat down in the White House with three curious groups: 1) Mrs. Roosevelt and her friend Esther Everett Lape, manager of the American Foundation which Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok finances out of Saturday Evening Post profits; 2) the Nation's official doctors-Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr. of the U. S. Public Health Service, Chairman Gary Travers Grayson of the Red Cross, and the President's Personal Physician Ross Mclntire; 3) ten private practitioners, including Otologist Samuel Joseph Kopetzky of the New York State Medical...
More than two hundred photographs by Miss Esther Born, illustrating contemporary Mexican architecture, will be on exhibit in Hunt Hall Daily until June 27 from 9 o'clock to 5. These views made for the Architectural Record, include examples of nearly every important type of secular building, from the simplest workers' house and private dwellings to large office buildings, hospitals, markets, warehouses, schools, factories, airports, and monuments...
...people started a mass dash, each eager to be first across the Golden Gate between San Francisco and the Marin County mainland. By nightfall 178,000 had crossed on foot and each apparently had been first in "one way or another. Sprinter Donald Bryant was first man across. Esther & Ann Bullard were first twins. Carmen & Minnie Perez were first skaters. Florentine Calegari was first on stilts. A Scottie was first dog. Police rushed to aid one woman staggering along with her tongue out. She was only becoming first across with tongue out. Two postmen took their lunch hour...
Other Biblical characters soon to go on the air are Solomon, Ruth, Esther, David and Saul. According to Director Wylie, Columbia aims to "freshen and reanimate" the stories, employing ablest writers to do so. Margaret Sangster did Job, Lewis Beach (The Goose Hangs High) Joseph. Thyra Samter Winslow and Ernest Howard Culbertson are among those selected to write future scripts. A Manhattan rabbi, priest and minister review the acts, copies of which Columbia will send in any quantity to churches throughout...
...pressagent at Santa Anita race track, are related with superlative detachment. They lead up to the climactic scene in which sunset on the Pacific-a magnificent shot which is possibly the best individual justification of Technicolor yet seen on the screen-tempts Maine to an appropriately exhibitionistic suicide, leaving Esther to a Hollywood funeral in which an admirer steals her veil...