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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...divorce in 1932 on the grounds that her husband forced her to pose nude in an unheated room, offered nude photographs of her to his friends as souvenirs. Two years ago he married an extremely pretty girl of 21. When he was younger he practiced acrobatics until he became expert, haunted vaudeville theatres, performed somersaults in theatre lobbies, went home to try to repeat the stunts he had seen on the stage. Once he spent the night with a one-eyed Civil War veteran sitting on the 3-ft. hat brim of the 37-ft. statue of William Penn atop...
Absent from the banquet was Columbia's expert Scenarist Robert Riskin who also collaborated with Director Frank Capra on Lady for a Day, Broadway Bill and whose The Whole Town's Talking last week had its Manhattan première (see below). Now 40, Scenarist Riskin was brought up in Baltimore, attended Columbia University for two years. After 15 years as a cinema director, playwright, free-lance producer and scenarist, he struck his stride with Lady for a Day, has since become one of Hollywood's highest-paid writers.* He lives at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, plays...
Died. Arthur ("Art") Young,* 52, famed archer; after an appendectomy; at Harvey, Ill. An expert pistol and rifle shot, he turned to bows & arrows "because it gives the beasts a chance." In 1925 he went to Africa with Stewart Edward White and the late Dr. Saxton Pope, killed seven lions with his dagger-pointed arrows. He slew walruses in Greenland, a 1,300-lb. bear on Kodiak Island...
...convict, expert knife handler, and 12-string guitar artist styled "Lead Belly" will play to the Leverett inmates and their guests Wednesday evening in the Dining Hall...
Tall, baldish, 44, Editor Kiplinger makes no bones about his status as a layman, "not an expert, not an 11th degree economist, not a technician in the upper realms of economic theory." Indeed, he believes his value to businessmen derives from the fact that "he lives and works in the earthly gardens." And in Letter No. 25 he asks that his conclusions and suggestions be challenged, leaving two blank pages for the reader's notes. Probably he will be challenged most frequently not on his conclusions but on his use of the word "inflation." What he has largely...